You’re an intelligent human being with a firm grasp of your business and insightful questions to match. You don’t have a Ph.D. in anything, and like most people you prefer to communicate using popular languages such as English. Unfortunately, when it comes to analyzing “big data”, these qualities don’t get you very far, and you are forced to rely on highly specialized Data Nerds to answer even the most basic business questions. Even worse, these eggheads are typically organized into a central Jedi Council that doesn’t report to you (or seemingly to anyone), forcing you to beg for their scarce …
Whenever I look at a new company, I break out my mental “checklist” that I have accumulated over the years. With every new experience, I try to learn something new, which helps me refine and improve my decision making process. This is not rocket science (of course, here is Silicon Valley, it may very well be rocket science ), but a few fundamental tenets. I have been fortunate enough to have been part of several successful companies. There are some common patterns, but each company and opportunity are unique: new team, new technology, market timing, competition, company culture, extraneous events, …
In our recent webinar Peter Schlampp, Vice President of Products and Business Development at Platfora, explains what the Hadoop Data Reservoir is and is not. Peter addresses the challenges of getting value out of Hadoop for business intelligence and analytics. These insights are based on interviews with over 200 enterprise IT professionals conducted by Platfora. Key requirements include self-service access to all the data in Hadoop, high-performance querying, and enterprise-level security. The webinar includes a demo of the Platfora solution. Here are answers to some of the top questions from webinar attendees: Q: Is Platfora accessible through Hive or other …
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