Data Integration and Web Mashups on Collision Course?
Here’s an interesting Techcrunch post on “5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash your Data“. It includes Yahoo! pipes that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, but also several other ETL-like technologies. One in particular, called Proto, has the ability to mash together local data with information from the web (e.g. “map my Outlook contacts”), and the interface and choice of transformations (avoid null values, etc.) is very... [Read More...]
Swivel.com: Flickr for Data Lovers?
After ManyEyes, Swivel is another site that another site that lets users upload and share information. It’s more explicitly modeled after Flickr and other web 2.0 sites, with community building and “fun statistics” (highlights today include chart showing number of people attending the burning man festival and the nationality of cyclists in the 2007 Tour of California). Post hoc ergo propter hoc The site illustrates one of my... [Read More...]
BI Forum Zurich
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Oracle Buys Hyperion
After the months (years?) of consolidation rumors, finally something happened…. Thoughts: Less change than you might expect It doesn’t change the BI market share picture much, based on the latest IDC numbers, from 2005 (2006 figures presumably due out soon, not expecting any huge changes in the relative positions). Hyperion is currently #5, and Oracle is #6, and combined they would become #4, ahead of Microsoft but behind Business Objects,... [Read More...]
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