{"id":12434,"date":"2014-10-10T18:41:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2014-10-10T18:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:41:31","slug":"cartoon-the-problem-with-most-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/cartoon-the-problem-with-most-analytics.html","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Problem With Most Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with most analytics projects is that they just don&#8217;t react fast enough, in two different ways.<\/p>\n<p>First, information isn&#8217;t available in real time. This is fine if you&#8217;re facing the same situation time and time again, and you can use past data to improve your future performance. But today&#8217;s challenges are becoming ever more dynamic, where past history doesn&#8217;t help tell you what&#8217;s going to happen next\u00a0&#8212; for example, imagine trying\u00a0to play tennis if you could only see the ball once it had gone past you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-problem-with-most-analytics-copy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6827\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-problem-with-most-analytics-copy.jpg?resize=608%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the problem with most analytics\" width=\"608\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/agile-analytics.html\" target=\"_blank\">HTAP<\/a> (hybrid transactional\/analytic processing) systems store information just once, in memory, where it&#8217;s immediately available for sophisticated analysis. Combined with powerful predictive algorithms, such systems not only let you see the ball faster, you can also start moving\u00a0to where the ball is going to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second, the analytics systems themselves aren&#8217;t agile enough to react to changing business needs. Companies need to implement &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-sap.com\/sap-empowers-users-trusted-data-discovery-advanced-insights\/\">trusted data discovery<\/a>&#8221; systems that let business people access new information fast and flexibly, while meeting the governance needs of the organization as a whole. This typically means that <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/5-top-tips-for-agile-analytics-organizations.html\" target=\"_blank\">BI organizations have to change<\/a>\u00a0to provide a more collaborative governance environment between business and users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon: the problem with most analytics projects is that they just don&#8217;t react fast enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[84,100,173,204,226,507,579,871],"class_list":["post-12434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","category-uncategorized","tag-agile","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-business-intelligence","tag-cartoon","tag-fun","tag-humor","tag-real-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-problem-with-most-analytics-copy-608x364-2.jpg?fit=608%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3ey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}