{"id":12393,"date":"2014-02-06T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:19:43","slug":"2014-the-year-of-analytics-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/2014-the-year-of-analytics-renewal.html","title":{"rendered":"2014: The Year of Analytics Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last couple of years have been spent talking about the big new technology possibilities in the analytics market that hold out the promise of making decades of best practice obsolete<\/a>. Now it\u2019s time to put those technologies into action. As Doug Henschen<\/a> of InformationWeek says in his recent article Big Data\u2019s 2 Big Years<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the past two years, Hadoop hit the big time, in-memory arrived, and practitioners saw data analysis deliver real results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unless you have the luxury of starting from scratch, installing your ERP on an in-memory, cloud-based system<\/a> with full analytics of the same data without any duplication<\/a>, it may be a long journey. But it\u2019s worth it. Gartner surveys indicate that business intelligence and analytics remain CIOs\u2019 top technology priority for 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although analytics remains one of the most difficult processes to get right, because it\u2019s about much more than \u201cjust technology,\u201d<\/a> it\u2019s easily the best IT investment you can make today.<\/p>\n

Beware of any vendor that claims there\u2019s an easy technology fix to your analytic needs, but now is the time to step away from your day-to-day wrestling with existing systems and take a strategic view of the new innovation options.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no longer a question of if<\/em> you will implement in-memory, Hadoop, unstructured analytics, mobile bi, and self-service data exploration, it\u2019s simply a question of when<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n

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