Talking Cloud, Mobile, Collaborative Analytics with Howard Dresner

This week I participated in an interactive webinar with Tidemark, SnapLogic and Howard Dresner. Howard reviewed some of the early findings from his annual Wisdom of the Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study – 2014 Edition, with a particular focus on Cloud, Mobile and Collaborative Analytics. It’s always great to get his perspective on the changing landscape of business intelligence and analytics.

I’ll post a few notes from the discussion on the SnapLogic blog this week. In the meantime, here’s the recording:

Better Business Analytics in the Cloud

I moderated a SnapLogic webinar today focused on the market shift to business intelligence, analytics and enterprise performance management delivered in the cloud. We discussed the trends, shared some industry analyst perspectives and demonstrated the importance of cloud integration to an overall business analytics as a service strategy. Here’s the presentation. You can watch the recording when it’s posted here. As always, feedback welcome.

Here are some of the links referenced in the presentation:

• What’s Driving the Shift to On-Demand BI
• Gartner predicts Business Intelligence and Analytics will Remain the Top Focus for CIOs through 2017
• Insights from Findings in Dresner Advisory Services’ 2013 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study
• Big Business Intelligence Trends for 2014
• Petabyte Scale Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift
• Business Intelligence Advances Into the Cloud with Some Caveats
• BI in the Cloud: Find Your Bliss
• SnapLogic Named EMA Vendor to Watch
• Ovum on the Radar: SnapLogic

Big Data and Cloud Analytics Discussion

I sat down with my friend Patrick Morrissey this week to discuss the business intelligence market, Big Data and all things cloud. Pat runs marketing for a hot new company called Tidemark. This was a follow up to a discussion published on the Sandhill.com site: Enterprise Performance Management in the Cloud on an iPad.

Here are the questions he asked. You can read my answers here: Five for Friday – Darren Cunningham of Informatica Cloud.

1. Analytics and business intelligence are top of mind for organizations today and Gartner says that BI is the #1 CIO priority in 2012.  Why is this such a hot button issue?
2. If analytics are so critical to business success, why do so many projects fail?
3. There is a lot of talk about “Big Data” in the press, blogs and industry events. How do you think about Big Data?
4. Many larger organizations are now moving to “Cloud First” as their enterprise IT and application strategy.  How does cloud change the game?

Definitely some great questions – how did I do? Want to take a stab at answering them? What’s your POV?

Related articles

• A Sixth Thing CIOs Should Know About Big Data (cloudcomputing.sys-con.com)
• How C-Level Execs are Tapping into Big Data Analytics (blogs.sap.com)