The Briefing Room with Colin White and Jaspersoft
Slides from the Live Webcast on June 12, 2012
As the corporate appetite for analytics and reporting grows, companies must find a way to secure a strategic view of their information architecture. End users with varying degrees of expertise need a wide range of data and reports delivered in a timely fashion. As the audience for analytics expands, that puts pressure on IT infrastructure and staff. And now with the promise of Hadoop and MapReduce, the organization's desire for business insight becomes even more significant.
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Colin White of BI Research will explain the value of being strategic with enterprise reporting. White will be briefed by Karl Van den Bergh of Jaspersoft, who will tout his company's “data funnel” concept, which is designed to strategically manage an organization's information architecture. By aligning information assets along this funnel, IT can effectively address the spectrum of analytical needs – from simple reporting to complex, ad hoc analysis – without over-taxing personnel and system resources.
3. ! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise
software, good and bad
! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s
innovative technologies
! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to
savvy analysts
! Allow audience members to pose serious questions...
and get answers!
Twitter Tag: #briefr
5. ! Business Intelligence technologies are designed to let
organizations take all their capabilities and convert them
into knowledge, ultimately getting the the right information
to the right people at the right time.
! BI tools are not just for business analysts these days. More
people want access to more data, and that data tends to
come from increasingly disparate sources.
! Everyone within an organization – from the analyst to the
business user – needs to have access to all the data, from
any source, on any device.
Twitter Tag: #briefr
6. Analyst: Colin White
Colin White is the president of DataBase
Associates Inc. and founder of BI Research.
As an analyst, educator and writer he is
well known for his in-depth knowledge of
data management, information
integration, and business intelligence
technologies and how they can be used for
building the smart and agile business. With
many years of IT experience, he has
consulted for dozens of companies
throughout the world and is a frequent
speaker at leading IT events. Colin has
written numerous articles and papers, and
for ten years he was the conference chair
of the DCI and Shared Insights Portals,
Content Management, and Collaboration
conference.
Twitter Tag: #briefr
7. ! Delivers a scalable, cost-effective, self-service
business intelligence suite
! Offers a commercial open source business model
! Built for Cloud, Mobile and Big Data environments
! Has a large developer community
Twitter Tag: #briefr
8. Karl Van den Bergh is the Vice President of
Product and Alliances at Jaspersoft. Karl is a
seasoned executive with 18 years experience
in software, hardware, open source and SaaS
businesses, both startup and established. Prior
to Jaspersoft, Karl was the VP of Marketing
and Alliances at Kickfire (now part of
Teradata), a venture-funded data warehouse
appliance startup. He also spent seven years
at Business Objects, where he held
progressively senior leadership positions in
product marketing, product management,
corporate development and strategy. Karl
started his career as a software engineer.
Twitter Tag: #briefr
9. Getting to Pervasive BI
through Changes in the Data
Funnel
Karl Van den Bergh, Vice President Product & Alliances
32. • On the big data topic can you explain how Jaspersoft connects to
systems such as Hadoop?
• There is a lot of hype about big data – are your customers using
multi-structured data for analysis? If so, for what type of
applications?
• What about accessing both structured and multi-structured data
using data virtualization – aren’t there performance issues here? Can
in-memory processing help?
• Are your customers using both analytic RDBMS and Hadoop systems?
If so, for what types of applications?
• What about deployment in the cloud? Any use cases you can talk
about here?
Twitter Tag: #briefr
33. • What features are users looking for to make BI tools easier to use -
are capabilities such as BI widgets, data and presentation mashups,
and portal support important here?
• One of the main objectives here is an easier to use interface. What
is required to achieve this?
• What about new data visualization approaches?
• Are mobile BI and collaborative BI key directions?
Twitter Tag: #briefr