Barry Devlin

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Big Data, Big Money and Big Opportunities

It often worries me that much of the excitement about big data…

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Virtualization, Federation or Just Plain Access

There are still many illusions and unjustified expectations about big data.  But,…

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Next query: NoSQL and Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) has long been associated with relational databases and the…

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Death By a Thousand Analytics

Donald Farmer, now of Qliktech, offered to the Boulder BI Brain Trust…

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Not Only SQL, Not Only Big Data

Attending the Teradata Universe 2012 in Dublin, an impressive line-up of speakers…

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Collaborative BI – What Women and Men Want

Many BI vendors now offer collaborative support as an additional feature of…

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Big Brother… or do I mean Big Data?

"Social networks already know who you know", "recommendation engines get much smarter",…

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Big Data, Big Mistakes?

Now, I may be accused of getting up on my soap box…

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BI 2012 Predictions – No Way!

It's that time of year when every analyst worth his or her…

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