Many data repositories are fragile, held together with shaky, ad libbed fixes, observes a busy consultant. Free access for data analysts scares the hell out of administrators.
MacGuffin, anyone?
In his years in BI, says QlikTech VP of product management Donald Farmer, “I’ve never seen a project fail for purely technical reasons. The organizational aspect was always the principal cause of failure.” Yet tools remain the industry’s obsession.
BI’s “desperate” for big data
Wherescape CEO Michael Whitehead says the business intelligence industry is “desperate” for big data to be “a movement, not a moment.”At stake: attention of the mainstream and the momentum that would follow.