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

Alation

This led to the birth of separate systems for reporting: the enterprise data warehouse. For the first time, the focus of a system became business questions, where data was denormalized. In this approach — in contrast to business intelligence — users request analytical queries only for new data topics. Parting Words.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Most of the data management moved to back-end servers, e.g., databases. So we had three tiers providing a separation of concerns: presentation, logic, data. Note that data warehouse (DW) and business intelligence (BI) practices both emerged circa 1990. Sorry, there is no data in agile. Disconnects, in a nutshell.