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Business Intelligence + Big Data
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October 2013 Welcome to this month's edition of iOLAP iNSIGHTS. In this issue you will find three interesting articles on the Challenges of BI, Big Data/Hadoop and a Tech Tip on Backdating Scenarios.
There is a lot happening the next 60 days, so don't forget to check out our events calendar.
The iOLAP Team
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Trends, News and SoundBytes That Caught Our Eye
MarketandMarkets Released their Big Data Market Size Report. They believe the Global Big Data Market in 2013 will be $14.87 billion and is expected to reach over $46 billion by 2018. Click here for more information.
Network World released their Top 15 Most Powerful Big Data Companies list. Click here to see the slide show. Our friends at IBM are listed at No. 1.
MicroStrategy recently created a Mobile App Universe website to showcase business app solutions created by them or their business partners. Click here to see the current showcase.
TDWI published an interesting Q&A article on 5 Essential Skills to Look for in a Data Scientist. It was interesting reading. Click here to see the full article.
Last month iOLAP presented a webinar on Mobile BI User Interface Design. If you missed it, click here to see the recorded program and download the slides.
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Business Intelligence Challenges and the 5 W's Steven Crofts, VP of Marketing, iOLAP, Inc.
 As a much younger writer and marketing guy watching the database technology boom of the 80's and 90's, I was fascinated with the advent of the data warehouse surge that started about twenty years ago. I saw it coming and watched it bloom. The promise of a "sandbox of meaningful data" for quicker and easier use by business managers was exciting.
Of course, the IT people loved it because it was new, getting a lot of hype, and the development money for big projects started pouring in. A lot of projects failed, but so what, we kept learning (and spending).
Click here to read the entire article on our iOLAP blog.
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What's On My Mind: Hadoop and Big Data--Then and Now Prakash Sukumar, Principal Consultant, iOLAP, Inc.
Every successful technology goes through several cycles of invention, discovery, socialization, adoption and continuous improvement. Hadoop is no exception. It has been embraced by early adopters and is now in the "discovery path" for other customers and vendors. The adoption is well supported by third party vendors who have customized and extended their product offerings with their own Hadoop distributions and implementation to help customers adopt the new technology.
Click here to read the rest of the article on our iOLAP blog.
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Tech Tip of the Month: Backdating Scenarios in Type 2 Dimensions
Anil Jacob, Senior Consultant, iOLAP, Inc.
 Recently, I had an interesting conversation with my project's data architect regarding possible back-dated changes for a primary dimension -- Employee -- in the data warehouse. In our existing data model, Employee was maintained as a Type 2 slowly changing dimension.
Six months into deployment, it was confirmed by business management that employee changes could be back-dated. This conversation reminded me of a project that I was part of three years earlier where such back-dated scenarios happened frequently.
Click here to download the full PDF-formatted article.
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iOLAP presents IBM's Big Data Platform, October 17. We will be hosting the event at the TopGolf golf entertainment complex in Allen, Texas. Space is limited. Please click here for details and to register.
Exhibiting at TDWI Boston, Boston, MA, October 22-23, 2013
iOLAP, Informatica and Cloudera present Crossing the Big Data Chasm, October 24, at Henry's Tavern in Plano, TX. Please click here for details and to register. Seating is limited.
Meet and Greet to Celebrate the opening of iOLAP's West Coast Office, November 6, 5:30 pm at Jones in San Francisco. Please click here to register and RSVP! Seating is limited.
Exhibiting at TDWI Orlando, Orlando, FL, December 8-13, 2013
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iOLAP is completely focused on these markets and brings a client-centric and business-focused perspective to all of our engagements. iOLAP has been in business since 1999 with in-depth expertise across all DW and BI technology areas, including the newest leading-edge Business Analytics and Big Data architectures. iOLAP serves some of the world's largest companies across all major industries.
iOLAP is a frequent contributor to important global thought leadership on Business Intelligence and Big Data.
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