Bridging the IT & Business Divide

It is time for a new refreshed look at your enterprise plans for data analytics, insigths have changed, ideas from 4 years ago are aged and a strategy & architecture setup 2 years ago now looks hopefully old fashioned and is not delivering what is needed to support the business.

The world of data is too vast and fast and has accelerated at an enormous speed which was two years ago still unbelievable and so to deliver analytic insights turning data into powerfull business information we need to solve those data challenges first. 

1.   Extreme growing amounts of data – coming from both traditional and big data sources – has created even more complexity. Be warned IoT will even add a lot more data to your crucial data marts. 

2.   The demand for self-service analytics from the business has grown because “everybody” wants, read needs data insights to be or stay comparative.

3.   This demand for self-service data preparation has resulted in disparate tools and lack of accurate, timely and IT-governed data.

All of these above factors contribute to missed business opportunities, insights which are not really supporting the business and even more dangerous it increased data security risk.

 According to the August 2016 Gartner Market Guide for Self-Service Data Preparation Analytics, [data and analytics] users spend the majority of their time either preparing data for analysis or waiting for data to be prepared for them.

Bridging the IT and Business Divide with Pentaho 7.0

With our newest release, Pentaho 7.0, we bridge the gap between IT and the business with a single platform where:

• IT can deliver the data that runs the business
• Data Analysts have the data to manage the business
• Data Scientists can work to transform the business

What does that lead to? Collaboration between IT, Data Scientists, Data Analysts and the business that accelerates time to insights and reduces missed opportunities.

Bridging the IT and Business Divide with Pentaho 7.0

Pentaho 7.0: Analytics Anywhere in the Data Pipeline

How did we do it? As the giant, swirling universe of big data explodes, the idea that data is static and prepared in a linear flow through three distinct processes is accurate, but not efficient. Instead, data runs through pipelines and being able to analyze and visualize data anywhere in the pipeline means organizations can now use resources more efficiently and drive better business insights faster.

Bridging the IT and Business Divide with Pentaho 7.0

With Pentaho 7.0, we are also introducing a new simplified paradigm for how Pentaho is installed and administered. With a new single merged server, the worlds of BI and DI literally come together and place analytics in the hands of data preparers. By moving visualizations upstream, users can now inspect data while it’s in-flight at any stage in the data prep process. Switching in and out of separate tools and waiting to visualize data until the end of the data prep process is a thing of the past.

Bridging the IT and Business Divide with Pentaho 7.0

At the same time, we strengthened our platform to support more of the big data ecosystem, enhancing capabilities for faster data on boarding, new capabilities for Spark to simplify and expand emerging use cases, and expanded Hadoop security to support a more secure big data blended world.

Want to know more of the possibilities with and the capabilities of Pentaho please reach out to me and I am glad to help you.