Trends in Data warehouse and Data Visualization tools
Data warehouse for any enterprise is always in an evolving state. We seem to be now maturing from report only to analytical phase and therefore one step closer to our dream of real time data warehouse. Every change in phase brings along with it new sets of challenges and therefore, often, new sets of tools and technologies. As we move from reporting to analytical phase, BI giants such as Cognos, MSTR, BO, OBIEE, Hyperion seem to be getting more and more obsolete .This is where we welcome data visualization tools like QlikView, Corda, Tableau, Panoptican, Spot Fire and Tibco. Advantages of these tools are very much in your face. They have very less build up time i.e. to say you can complete your first report within two days of installation (Including the learning phase). This is preferable as against traditional reporting tools, where you would spend considerable time building metadata layer.(MSTR claims you can bring down a 30-day activity to 1 hour). They are visual...