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BI and The Cloud: What does it all mean?

Pano M. Xinos

For the sake of clarity…

Necessary evil

Private cloud Public cloud Hybrid cloud

IaaS PaaS SaaS

On-‐demand, self-‐service Broad network access Resource pooling Rapid elasLcity Measured service

hMp://csrc.nist.gov/publicaLons/nistpubs/800-‐145/SP800-‐145.pdf

PredicLve AnalyLcs = Big Data Business Intelligence ≠ Big Data

THREE IDEAS

CHEAP, ACTIONABLE INFORMATION One

AS “BIG DATA” à MAINSTREAM BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE = BIG DATA

Two

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT (“IT’S NOT INFORMATION OVERLOAD; IT’S FILTER FAILURE.”)

Three

CHEAP, ACTIONABLE INFORMATION One

hMp://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ (Oct. 2013) hMp://www.google.com/trends/ (Oct. 2013)

hMp://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ (Oct. 2013)

$3B+ of revenue in 2013 can’t be wrong

Big Data <3’s Cloud

Large Workloads + Cloud CompuLng

XOXOXOX

CommodiLzed compute combined with predicLve analyLc tools yields

acLonable informaLon

Cloud + PredicLve Data AnalyLcs

Cheap, AcLonable InformaLon

hMp://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2007/05/man-‐spends-‐266-‐hours-‐awake-‐for-‐world-‐record-‐now-‐feels-‐stupid/

“Man Spends 266 Hours Awake For World Record, Now Feels Stupid”

AS “BIG DATA” à MAINSTREAM BIG DATA = BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Two

hMp://www.infoincog.com/the-‐big-‐data-‐hype-‐cycle/

It’s not all doom and gloom

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ebio.net/2013/04/13/terrible-‐advice-‐from

-‐a-‐great-‐scien

Lst/

Future success is measured in terms of opportunity cost

Image: hMp://thecareerblog.wordpress.com/

Companies that already have a BI pracLce will more easily

integrate predicLve analyLcs

Open source is a low(er) cost soluLon that will help drive

adopLon

As predicLve analyLcs is more widely adopted, it will merge with BI as a new pracLce

hMp://www.woldfitness.com

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT (“IT’S NOT INFORMATION OVERLOAD; IT’S FILTER FAILURE.”1)

Three

“It’s not informaLon overload; it’s filter failure.”

-‐-‐Clay Shirky (2008)

1 hMp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

hMp://blog.poMerzot.com/2007/09/25/garbage-‐in-‐garbage-‐out-‐and-‐the-‐desire-‐to-‐cover-‐our-‐own-‐ass-‐is-‐ruining-‐the-‐world/

Flickr, Copyright ShieldkiMen

PoliLcs

hMp://www.threehundredeight.com/

So, what does it all mean?

CLOUD IS CHEAP. INFORMATION IS PRICELESS.

One

GET ON BOARD WHILE THE GETTING IS GOOD.

Two

EXPERIENCE AND INDUSTRY EXPERTISE SOLVES PROBLEMS.

Three

Thank you!

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