Tableau stock has dropped, but they can still generate a level of excitement that I have seen in few other products. Heralded as the darling of Wall Street, business intelligence and data lovers in general until last week, it would appear that Tableau has suddenly fallen from grace with many erstwhile admirers and investors given […]
If you have an issues, you can either leave it, change it or love it – choose wisely Are you the type of person who values other people’s advice? While I don’t want to offer you some advice myself, I do want to tell you a story that had a profound effect on my attitude, […]
Are you looking forward to the Webtrekk User Conference 2015 as much as we are? Marketing analytics expert Webtrekk returns to Berlin this year with the event that will see the launch of its latest product: Digital Data Warehouse (DWH). The Digital Data Warehouse (DWH) combines the excellent scalability and unprecedented performance of Exasol with […]
BI front-end tools are only as good as the underlying data. One of things that always strikes me as odd when I talk to users of BI front-end tools is how they are persuaded by the applications’ nice dashboards and reports, but fail to realise that the tools are only as good as the underlying […]
I have never seen anything more pure in my life. Standing 700 feet above sea level on top of the Cliffs of Moher, on top of nature’s wonder, I looked out over the turquoise Atlantic Ocean. Staring at the water beneath me, I marveled at the unblemished reflection of the sky above. The array of […]
A practical demonstration: EXASolution versus Natural Language Processing I’d like to mark Thanksgiving by celebrating one of America’s greatest living poets, Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z. The thing I like most about Jay-Z’s poetry is that there is no way I could have written it. His upbringing, working and social lives are radically different from mine, […]
The London Hadoop User Group gets to hear EXASOL’s view of SQL-on-Hadoop Last night I gave a talk to a Meetup of the Hadoop User Group in London about SQL-on-Hadoop, and my theory that it would never replace specialist SQL engines like EXASOL. I’ve enjoyed attending these informal meetups over the past year or so […]
Exasol can cope with unstructured data using User Defined Functions “Structured data” is the kind of data that you could work with in a (sufficiently large) spreadsheet. There are fixed fields within a record and there’s a data model which defines what fields of data will be stored and how that data will be stored […]