By Tom Davenport, Network World
I think we’re on the verge of a dramatic change in the technology architecture for analytics, and I plan to write several posts about it. If you think about it, we’ve had virtually the same technology environment for 20 years or so. It involves such features as:
• The separation of analytics software from transaction processing software;
• The creation and use of data warehouses to feed reporting and analysis processes;
• The use of multi-purpose analytical toolkits, a.k.a. “statistical packages;”
• Premise-based (as opposed to online service-based) analytical applications;
• Applications and tools that are generic with regard to the industry
These attributes have led to a technology environment I will call “the analytical sandbox”—a term that some organizations actually use. It signifies a separate world in which an analyst can play to his heart’s content; all the data and analytical methods that he or she could ever need are made available, and any question can be answered, any decision supported.
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