Faster BI time-to-value in 2012

A few ideas for your 2012 project portfolio:

Sponsor an Analytics as a Service project

Find a project with rapid business value and a small number of end-users.  This would be a simple project to do internally.  Don’t.  Find an outside provider to supply the whole stack - analytics, implementation process, software stack - Merced in Sales Performance, RetailDriver or AcceleratedAnalytics for POS, etc.  Being able to manage entitlements, dats security, and integration while utilizing an outside analytics application provider is a key driver for increasing agility.

Use Hadoop (mapReduce) and Python for an Extract/Load project

Yes, Hadoop can enable incredibly large scale big-data projects.  But new technology and new business solution at the same time is not a good equation.  Try piloting Hadoop on a plain vanilla

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