With the flurry of activities and the noise being created around Big Data, it is but natural to see huge content getting generated around the subject.
Not to be left behind, the Subject Matter Experts (SME) have brought in four books on Big Data – three from the SMEs and one from the vendor IBM.
You could find them at Amazon.  Check out the links below and let’s know your views.  Happy reading !!

Taming The Big Data [...]

Year 2011 was truly an year to remember for the events that shook us all.  Quite a few great thought leaders who had played a key role in shaping the Information Technology space left us.  We also got to see few futuristic technologies and patterns like Hadoop, BigData stepping in.  Business Intelligence continues to remain in the top three priorities of the CxOs and has grown considerably both in terms of reach and adoption.
As I [...]

FICO has announced the FICO Analytic Learning Webinar Series, five free webinars from October 2011 through January 2012 devoted to helping financial services analytics professionals improve their use of predictive analytics and modeling.
The webinars focus on sharing advanced analytic techniques pioneered by FICO experts along with case studies demonstrating how financial services institutions around the world are using analytics and modeling to solve business problems and achieve growth.
The first webinar in the series, “A Clear Diagnosis: Managing [...]

Infovision is an ISiM crafted initiative, started in 2005. First of its kind in terms of collaborative effort from the biggest industry forums like TDWI Chapter, CSI, DAMA, acm and IEEE.
Some of the themes of Infovision 2011 are :

CXO perspective on how to leverage Data for business differentiation and competitiveness.
Explore the latest Technology landscape, share best practices and technology workshops
Explore value proposition of BI from the perspectives of Businesses, Products/Technology, Service Providers, End user expectations with case [...]

TDWI Chapter (India) event (FREE) on Big Data in Hyderabad on 23rd July 2011 hosted by Infosys
Agenda :
09:00 10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00 10:15 Welcome Address – Srinivas Prabhala, CTO, Financial Services, Infosys
10:15 10:45 Data Deluge: Opportunities and challenges N T Arun Kumar, Managing Director, UBS
10:45 11:45 Technical Challenges of Handling big data Ramesh Bhashyam, CTO, Teradata (India R&D)
11:45 12:45 Hadoop and No SQL Approaches Nagaraj Kulkarni, Chief Architect, Compugence
12:45 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 14:45 Data Analysis [...]

Out on a summer vacation and still pondering about the projects? Well, it is time to catch up with some good summer reading books.
Presenting you with top ten books for your summer reading.  The list is based on what I would wish to or am in the process of reading. Hope you have your personal list too.
Would be more than happy to hear your comments. The list is not in any particular [...]

Imagine a not very futuristic picture of an executive dressed in a matrix inspired black suit barking orders, which he lands at due to the business reports that some futuristic device presents to him.
With the changing face of business intelligence (BI), it’s no sci-fi fantasy that decision makers will have to simply keep dreaming about. The dream to have strategic business information in the palms of your hands is now within reach of the modern [...]

Glad to share with you details of a seminar on Business Analytics conducted by Deloitte Consulting.
Business that can be analyzed accurately can be managed efficiently. In these volatile times, predictability and foresight are the key attributes that can keep an organization ahead of competition. Business analytics may not be the answer to stay ahead, but it can certainly help decipher the signals generated in a volatile environment and make decisions to maximize an organizations value [...]

Most of us, the BIDW Practitioners, would be used to the words ‘Kimball & Inmon’ in our daily lives.  Each of us would be having our own views on the merits and demerits of adopting these different school of thought.
The Kimball approach focuses on the star schema based design and in some areas where the complexity is high even snow flake structures are also used.  These are nothing but an extension of the star schema. [...]

Every time Gartner publishes the ‘Magic Quandarant for BI Platforms‘ there is lot of discussions, blogging, views, arguments etc. in the industry.  This time too it is no different from the earlier ones.
Surprisingly, for an industry which relishes on its intelligence superiority, the  ’Visionaries’ quadrant is empty and the ‘Challengers’ quadrant has only two players – TIBCO Spotfire and Tableau!  Are we heading towards a single vendor monopoly kind of a situation or are there no worthwhile [...]