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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

As Business Objects founder Bernard Liautaud notes in e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the lack of ad hoc data access causes IT staff to drown in requests. At Alation, we believe self-service has three unique stakeholders: End users trying to discover data for decision making.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

This is especially the case in data science; most enterprise organizations simply cannot hire enough of the data analytics talent they need therefore, so much of these staffing needs must be filled by current employees. They use data infrastructure at work. NASA persistently misspells Jupyter. That’s no problem.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. to join data science teams, e.g., to support advertising, social networks, gaming, and so on—I hired more than a few. 2018 – Global reckoning about data governance, aka “Oops!