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Landscape changed - BI vendors reshuffled
 The Forrester Wave applied 22-criteria evaluation to enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms which also have cloud deployment options, and identified the 15 most significant ones as BOARD International, IBM, Information Builders, Looker, MicroStrategy, OpenText, Panorama, Pyramid Analytics, Qlik, SAP, SAS, Sisense, Tableau Software, TIBCO Software, Yellowfin As a result of its research, analysis and scoring, a new Report compiled will help businesses working on BI initiatives make the right choice of BI platforms. Leaders are: MicroStrategy, IBM, TIBCO Software, Qlik High Competitors are: Information Builders, Looker, Pyramid Analytics, Tableau Software, SAP, Open Text, Yellowfin, Sisense, SAS The vendor segmentation that Forrester used in 2012 and 2015 to evaluate BI platform capabilities no longer holds. Forrester have completely realigned its BI platforms evaluation. Forrester now "Treats enterprise versus self-service and agile BI as one category. For about three decades until approximately two years ago, enterprise BI platforms (e.g., IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects), while highly scalable, required technology professionals to develop most of the BI content. Conversely, end-user-focused BI platforms, which became popular in the early 2000s (e.g., Qlik and Tableau), empowered business users to produce most of their own BI content (reports, dashboards) with little to no reliance on tech pros. These newer platforms, however, did not scale beyond workgroups and departments. Vendors in these two categories did not sit on their laurels: Over the last several years they’ve addressed most of the missing functional and technology requirements in their product portfolios. As a result, all earlier-generation enterprise BI vendors now offer end-user-centric capabilities (built into the same platform or as separate tools). And the newer end-user-focused vendors innovated on acquired technologies and capabilities that let them scale across large enterprises. "Do not consider data visualization as a separate market segment. Until a few years ago, Forrester saw a clear differentiation between BI platforms with mostly static reporting and visualization features and those with more advanced, dynamic, highly interactive data visualization.This is no longer the case - all leading BI vendors have acquired or developed advanced data visualization capabilities. Forrester now sees advanced data visualization as one of many capabilities of BI platforms, not a separate market segment. "Do not consider cloud BI as a separate market segment. While some of the enterprise and agile BI platforms Forrester evaluated in 2015 had single-tenant cloud-hosting capabilities, they were not based on modern, cloud-native, multitenant architectures. Conversely, some of the cloud BI platforms evaluated in 2015 had very basic on-premises deployment capabilities. While most of the vendors evaluated in this Forrester Wave still deploy their BI platforms on-premises, they have developed modern cloud architectures and have some customers (albeit still less than 50%) deploying BI platforms in the cloud. "Assess only differentiated BI platform features. Forrester now sees many BI platform features as table stakes and no longer uses them as evaluation criteria —including querying and reporting, data visualization, descriptive analytics, end user self-service, scalability, administration, and database connectivity. " Read more on why >> |
Cloud Access Security Broker - CASB
"The benefits of being in the cloud are so overwhelmingly positive that the move is essential for business growth. So what can you do to prevent your business being exposed to the consequences of a data breach: lost data, outages, lost revenues, loss of intellectual properties, potential damage to your hard-won reputation?... "Great place to start is a Cloud Access Security Broker, or CASB. In June 2016, Gartner issued a list of the top 10 information security technologies, and put CASBs right up at number one. "CASBs are an effective and easy way to mitigate the top cloud security threats. They provide data security, cloud service visibility, threat protection, and compliance. No wonder then, that CASBs are one of the fastest growing security technologies today. While many SaaS apps have limited visibility and control options, CASBs provide businesses with one critical control point for the secure and compliant use of cloud services – even across multiple cloud providers. "You can find out more about CASBs elsewhere on this site." Source >> |
"Single Version of TRUTH" - Blockchain?
 The year 2017 is marked as the year of most talked technology called Blockchain. It is called by world wide companies like IBM as "Tomorrow's Value Chain". Companies are talking about "how blockchain technology will impact value chain for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers". They say Blockchain "drives visibility, trust and efficiency". They say Blockchain technology "as a shared ledger allows the retailer, supplier and transport companies to work off the same data - a single version of truth as each partner updates the block, the trusted, real time data can be used to optimise forecasting and transportation planning". They say "by creating a chain of data that can not be altered, blockchain is well suited for tracking high-value luxury goods and other items where buyers want full insight into the origins and ownership trail of the goods". They say "by 2018, we expect substantial momentum in blockchain implementations for consumer products and retail companies globally. By 2020, we expect that nearly two-thirds of the retail and consumer goods industries will have blockchains in full production". IBM Whitepaper The article in Forbes gives a bit of insight as to what Blockchain is: "Everyone’s talking about blockchain, but you’re still not entirely sure what it is, don’t worry, you’re not alone. It’s something that Jack Dorsey, the CEO and chairman of Square and CEO of Twitter, described this week as the 'next big unlock,' and something that, according to Dorsey, is normally applied to accounting terms but has the potential to 'be applied to so much more.' ” Recommended reading on Blockchain |
Companies should get ready for GDPR!
 "With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming effective May 25, 2018, organizations (or rather, organisations) seem to be stressing a bit. Most we speak with are asking, 'where do we even start?' or 'what is included as personal data under the GDPR?' It is safe to say that these are exactly the questions organizations should be asking, but to know where to start, organizations first need to understand how the GDPR applies to their organization within this new definition for personal data. Without first understanding what to look for, an organization cannot begin to perform data discovery and data mapping exercises, review data management practices and prepare the organization for compliance with the GDPR... "With the GDPR’s becoming effective next year, it’s clear that this new definition of personal data expands on the preexisting EU definition of personal data contained in the Data Protection Directive. Additionally, it adds more specificity to the data that can be used to identify an individual in comparison with leading US personal data definitions. "Why is this so important and relevant to organizations? This new definition of personal data is the most comprehensive definition to date, bringing into scope more information to be considered than any previous definitions in industry regulations or standards. Now, organizations will need to take another look at their previous determination of personal data and reevaluate their data management practices to ensure that the information they hold has been labeled and handled correctly. In fact, information deemed not applicable to past privacy regulations and standards may now become relevant when taking the new definition of personal data into consideration..." Read more on >> The GDPR and Personal Data |
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