New Age BI = Kimball + Big Data for unstructured data + AI capabilities

Kimball and Inmon are driven off of structuring data

Inmon

• Bill Inmon is centralized DW proponent
• Inmon defines data warehouse as a centralized repository for the entire enterprise
• Data warehouse is at the center of the Corporate Information Factory (CIF)

Kimball

• Kimball defines data warehouse as “A copy of transaction data specifically structured for query and analysis”
• Kimball kept getting more correct due to global corporations and their need for distributed DW
• Kimball is the distributed Data Marts proponent.
• Kimball defines business processes quite broadly.

Current Status

• Both those concepts are currently changing based with BigData, Inmem Processing, Columnar
• databases and machine intelligence
• We need both tactical plus bigdata plus analytics

Today BI = DW + AI capabilities + Big Data

• BI & Analytics is spread across multiple components; we cannot invest in centralized DW as systems need to be agile enough to accommodate changing data needs
• Knowledge discovering is an ongoing process
• Data is structured, unstructured. Strategically data is changing.
• Making it smaller datamarts is more manageable

Kimball + Big Data for unstructured data + AI capabilities = New Age BI

The goal of analytics is to move away from historical to real-time recommendations

New Age #BI = #Kimball + #BigData for unstructured data + #AI capabilities

• #Kimbal - Build Datamarts to slide and dice through data
• #BigData - Find your digital footprint, Look at realtime trends/sentiments
• #AI - Use AI to find insights from your customer, users, demands, patterns

Happy Learning!!!