Comments on: What is really coming next? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/comment-page-1/#comment-5662 Paula Thornton Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:23:28 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/#comment-5662 I believe that what we learned in the Data Warehousing space 10 years ago is extremely relevant here: most of the highest value returned was simply in having 'access' to the data. It could have just as easily been served up in a spreadsheet and still had the same impact. Now the same data can be displayed (made available) directly from a Visio 2007 interface drawing! Since many reporting tools were relabeled as BI tools, these will fall by the wayside as FAST and other retrieval and 'presentation' interfaces take over. Then Business Intelligenct tools will go back to their original intended focus, deep analytics. This is a classic case of too much 'application' for too little value. I believe that what we learned in the Data Warehousing space 10 years ago is extremely relevant here: most of the highest value returned was simply in having ‘access’ to the data. It could have just as easily been served up in a spreadsheet and still had the same impact. Now the same data can be displayed (made available) directly from a Visio 2007 interface drawing! Since many reporting tools were relabeled as BI tools, these will fall by the wayside as FAST and other retrieval and ‘presentation’ interfaces take over.

Then Business Intelligenct tools will go back to their original intended focus, deep analytics.

This is a classic case of too much ‘application’ for too little value.

]]> By: Dr Petri I. Salonen http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/comment-page-1/#comment-5624 Dr Petri I. Salonen Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:06:40 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/#comment-5624 You are brining up a very valid point here... It is not about the tools, but more about how we use the software overall. I have been in the business intelligence and data warehousing domain for almost 20 years and I still believe that many organizations deploy them without really having a profound understanding of why they do it and what the benefit might be. The fact is that most of us have changed the way we work and at least I am very demanding of any application that my company deploys. Nice blog by the way... You are brining up a very valid point here… It is not about the tools, but more about how we use the software overall. I have been in the business intelligence and data warehousing domain for almost 20 years and I still believe that many organizations deploy them without really having a profound understanding of why they do it and what the benefit might be. The fact is that most of us have changed the way we work and at least I am very demanding of any application that my company deploys. Nice blog by the way…

]]> By: Tom Mandel http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/comment-page-1/#comment-5613 Tom Mandel Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:17:03 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/08/what-is-really-coming-next/#comment-5613 Great post, Jevon. A few quick thoughts... 1. best of breed components connected via RESTful apis and user-accessible standards like rss -- this is how to get software that is powerful by being small and that lets the user add value. 2. radical social presence -- (disclosure; I am part of www.connectbeam.com) this is at the core of connectbeam. Giving users outward-facing, self-updating profiles that reflect their search, bookmarking, tagging activities is a central feature of our software. Then, powering search itself (FAST, google, any enterprise search ultimately) to return search results that feature the ability to click to profiles that relate to the searcher's goal. I seem to have missed Stowe's original post -- I'll have to make sure he knows about our version of what he asks for. Great post, Jevon. A few quick thoughts…

1. best of breed components connected via RESTful apis and user-accessible standards like rss — this is how to get software that is powerful by being small and that lets the user add value.

2. radical social presence — (disclosure; I am part of http://www.connectbeam.com) this is at the core of connectbeam. Giving users outward-facing, self-updating profiles that reflect their search, bookmarking, tagging activities is a central feature of our software. Then, powering search itself (FAST, google, any enterprise search ultimately) to return search results that feature the ability to click to profiles that relate to the searcher’s goal.

I seem to have missed Stowe’s original post — I’ll have to make sure he knows about our version of what he asks for.

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