• Home
  • Blog
  • Who We Are
  • Contact
  • Sponsors
Enterprise Irregulars
Smart Thinking for the Smart Enterprise
  • Featured Posts
  • Business
  • Technology / Software
  • Trends & Concepts
  • Startup Lessons

Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing

Hadoop is Many Things Including the Ideal ETL Tool for Big Data Analytics

Hadoop is Many Things Including the Ideal ETL Tool for Big Data Analytics

By Evangelos Simoudis on April 4, 2011

The success of the recent Strata and Structure conferences (conclusions from last year’s conference and resulting trends can be found here) reinforced the accelerating corporate interest in big data and the specific need for applications and techniques that take advantage of Hadoop.  Based on the presentations I attended or read about, it appears that more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BI, BigData, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, hadoop, mapreduce, NoSQL | 1 Response

Impressions from Strata 2011

Impressions from Strata 2011

By Evangelos Simoudis on February 7, 2011

Last week I attended Strata, a conference organized by O’ Reilly and devoted to big data.  I was a large conference (790 attendees) whose content included both technical talks and tutorials about the new generation of big data tools, e.g., Hadoop, Cassandra, visualization, as well presentations on big data business applications.  The diversity and size […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, conferences

Business Analytics Obstacles

Business Analytics Obstacles

By Evangelos Simoudis on January 26, 2011

Last week my partners and I hosted a meeting of our IT Advisory Board.  This board consists of senior IT executives from Global 2000 companies including CIOs and CTOs.  I will write about the topics discussed in this meeting in a few days, once I had the opportunity to clean up the several pages of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, Business Analytics, business intelligence, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing

We Need a New Generation of eCommerce Analytics

We Need a New Generation of eCommerce Analytics

By Evangelos Simoudis on November 28, 2010

In 1996, while I was running IBM’s BI solutions organization, one of my groups developed the Surfaid web analytics solution.  Surfaid, one of the first such solutions, was later acquired by Coremetrics (that was in turn recently acquired by IBM and made part of its marketing automation solution).  Later on Omniture dominated the high-end web […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, CoreMetrics, E-Commerce, ibm, SaaS, Web analytics | 2 Responses

Mobile Data Analytics

Mobile Data Analytics

By Evangelos Simoudis on November 15, 2010

Over the past couple of years I have met with several startups that offer analytic solutions for mobile data. I have not invested in any of them. I had felt that the data captured from feature phones and early generations of smartphones was not rich enough to lead to interesting and distinct analytics. For example, while data captured from a mobile web browser such as sites visited, pageviews, time spent browsing could be analyzed, we didn’t need a new company to do that. Omniture could do that just fine. However, the new smartphones capture more interesting data. These data sets…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Cloud Computing, databases, internet, iPhone, Mobile Computing, Wireless Data, Zeo | 1 Response

Insight as a Service

Insight as a Service

By Evangelos Simoudis on October 4, 2010

The survey data presented in last August’s Pacific Crest SaaS workshop pointed to the need for a variety of data analytic services. These services that can be offered under, Insight-as-a-Service, can range from business benchmarking, e.g., compare one business to its peers’ that are also customers of the same SaaS vendor, to business process improvement recommendations based on a SaaS application’s usage, e.g., reduce the amount spent on search keywords by using the SEM application’s keyword optimization module, to improving business practices by integrating syndicated data with a client’s own data, e.g., reduce the response time to customer service requests…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, benchmarking, BI, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Business Model, Cloud Computing, iaas, Insight as a Service, internet, linkedin, netsuite, SaaS, salesforce.com | 17 Responses

IBM's Business Analytics Blogger Event

IBM’s Business Analytics Blogger Event

By Evangelos Simoudis on August 8, 2010

Last Tuesday I was invited to speak at an IBM event for technology bloggers. The event addressed two topics that represent key growth priorities for IBM: business analytics and smarter planet. IBM’s Fred Balboni, Global Business Lead for Analytics (responsible for all business analytics services at IBM), Rod Smith, VP of Emerging Technologies, and Mike […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Cloud Computing

Thoughts on Big Data

Thoughts on Big Data

By Evangelos Simoudis on July 8, 2010

Earlier in the year I wrote about areas of investment interest for 2010 and included Big Data aggregation, management, and data mining/processing. A couple of weeks ago I had attended Gigaom’s Structure 2010, a conference devoted to big data. As is also noted by Derrick Harris here there is a growing market of vendors that […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Big Data, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing, hadoop

feed mail facebook twitter linkedin

EI Tweets

My Tweets

Popular Posts

  • Beyond The Three V’s of Big Data – Viscosity and Virality
  • FinancialForce Services-as-a-Business Is What Their Customers Need To Drive Growth
  • Digital transformation and the high performance enterprise
  • Strategy, Business Model, and Who's Your Customer
  • Essential Android Apps for Business - all FREE!
  • Google’s Woes and the Right to Be Pixilated
  • Enterprise Social Network - 2013 Part Two
  • How will the IT services world look post Corona pandemic ?

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Authors

  • Anshu Sharma
  • Bob Warfield
  • Brian Sommer
  • Dave Kellogg
  • David Terrar
  • Denis Pombriant
  • Dion Hinchcliffe
  • Esteban Kolsky
  • Evangelos Simoudis
  • James Governor
  • Jason Corsello
  • Jason M. Lemkin
  • Louis Columbus
  • Michael Krigsman
  • Naomi Bloom
  • Paul Greenberg
  • Phil Fersht
  • R "Ray" Wang
  • Raju Vegesna
  • Ross Mayfield
  • Sameer Patel
  • Sandy Kemsley
  • Susan Scrupski
  • Thomas Otter
  • Tom Raftery
  • Vijay Vijayasankar
  • Vinnie Mirchandani
  • Zoli Erdos