Tuesday, 2008-04-15, Copenhagen
I just read an article by Richard Winter, regarding the large growth of data volume in enterprise data warehouses. Here are my learning points on the article. Why is it that many enterprise vision bigger growth of data volume in the near future? Mostly this is due to the business needs and the better ways (that technology has brought out) to measure, collect, and calculate the data from its most detailed level. For example, most enterprises use to retain 3 years of historical data in the hard disk for doing analysis. Now there are more ones trying to keep 7 years of historical data to be more accurate in the business competition. So the needs for better hardware will never stop because human beings are becoming more ambitions.
Google recently announced the “Google Solutions Marketplace” which is a network that allows customers and partners to find each other and do business. Most products in this market are based on Google’s communication, search, and collaboration products.
Friday, 2008-04-18, Copenhagen
We are getting used to what Google can provide us. But is there another search engine that can be as competitive as Google? Yahoo? Live? or what? If we look at the recent news, that AOL has just acquired Sphere Source, a developer of contextual-search tools to make connections between content from blogs, video, media, photos, and advertisements, it seems that other people are thinking on the same online search market. I can tell that, nor far from the future, AOL will have its new brand of search engine pushed to market with a lot of competitive features.
Is webBI a form of SAAS for BI applications? Well, it depends. WebBI is indeed a way of enabling SAAS and it provides good opportunities for off-shore BI applications and services. But webBI is far from getting adoptted by medium and large enterprises. What stays in-between is the matter of security and regulations.
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