vincent
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:15:31 +0000
Whilst at DAMA last week I managed to miss the
Teradata talk on “
active data warehouses“. Luckily James Taylor
blogged comprehensively on the talk, and although it seems Teradata declined to make the presentation available to attendees, I’m guessing it was pretty much the same as
this one (”Google is your friend”/”Time to Yahoooo”, etc).
Now, DAMA is targeted at Data Professionals, many of whom also have to deal with data warehouses to store longer term data for analysis and analytics. Yet here is a highly respected
DW company, who sells mostly in the DW space, advocating an
event-driven approach to analysing your data. Fascinating! Furthermore, they presented “event-driven” use cases (albeit old ones) such as real-time event processing for the
airline industry that we have already seen adopt CEP. But then, the use of an ESB, event-store, and rule-engine as a DIY CEP engine is a perfectly valid approach to event processing (cost notwithstanding) versus an off-the-shelf CEP engine (
not mentioning any names of course).
At the same time, we see a similar development in the BI space as indicated by this
IntelligentEnterprise comment on
BI Emerging Technologies. The key term here is “in-memory analytics” although some of the other “emerging technologies” may also seem familiar (namely: advanced visualization - cue
TIBCO Spotfire - and
cloud computing - although in this case they refer to hardware clouds rather than event clouds).
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03-25-2008
