Business Intelligence:yesterday, today, tomorrow

IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow 2011 Kiev

Dmitry Gudkov

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Beginning: SQL

• Elegant idea – well structured, human readable queries

• Was intended for business users as well• Became overloaded with features later

SELECT Book.title, COUNT(*) AS Authors

FROM Book JOIN Book_author ON Book.isbn = Book_author.isbn

GROUP BY Book.title;

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The day before yesterday: 90s

• 2 main types of BI tools– Report builders– Visual ad hoc SQL builders

• Oriented primarily on standard RDBMS• Golden age of MOLAP• Existed as desktop applications• Rare use within organizations

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Yesterday: early 2000s

• Consolidation of Q&A and reporting in a single platform• Switch to web technologies (browser clients, SOAP, etc.)• New positioning: enterprise platforms• Enterprise Data Warehouses• Trends

– BI-standardization– Pervasive BI– Operational BI– SOA

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Today: influencing factors

• Unresolved problems of BI tools:– Low user adoption– Complexity– High cost

• Big Data• World goes social• World goes mobile

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Today: trends (tech)

• End of «One size fits all» approach• New generation of analytical engines– Columnar and purpose-built analytical DBMS– In-memory processing– BI/DWH Appliances

• Consolidation of BI and EPM• Federated data warehouses• Consolidation of ETL, DQ, CDC, MM and other data

management tools• Open source BI, SaaS, PaaS

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Today: trends (business)

• Failure of BI-standardization• Data Discovery• Advanced visualization• Users require data manipulation capabilities• Mobile BI• Collaborative BI

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Tomorrow’s BI...

• SaaS, PaaS• DWH will remain• Consumerization of UX• Mobile BI apps• Extended social features in BI tools• Mash-ups• Integration with social services

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Tomorrow’s BI...

… is shaped by you!

Thanks!

E-mail: dmitry.gudkov@gmail.comBlog: http://bi-review.blogspot.com