Chapter 6 Sec 2 Data Warehouse{0}
The article that I found talks about I.B.M. and their recent purchase of a data warehouse company called Netezza. The article was published on September 20, 2010 and I found it in The New York Times. Although the purchase made by I.B.M. is recent, many other companies have made purchases of data warehouse or business intelligence companies. Usually business intelligence is treated as a software technology; but as the article states, that approach is too outdated for our fast paced day-to-day lives. One of the points that they bring up is that now some business are starting to combine features of both software and hardware technologies to handle data and business intelligence. The article explains some background of both I.B.M. and Netezza, and why their merger could change the world of business intelligence; considering that I.B.M. specializes in hardware, while Netezza specializes in software. What business want to accomplish with data now is not just to store it, but be able to refer back to it in a “real-time” setting, as John Schwarz, a former chief executive of Business Objects said: ” Massive amounts of data that can be analyzed instantly has tremendous value.”
How this news article relates to Blatzan’s textbook is that chapter 6 is all about data and business intelligence. In section two of chapter 6, there is a brief explanation of the history of data warehouses. The purchase made by I.B.M. seems to be a new step in the history of the future of data warehouses and business intelligence. The book also explains how the data warehouse works, and the article explains the new way that businesses are trying to be efficient in the handling of important information.
I like the new approach of combining hardware and software technologies to process data, it seems like this will be the way data warehouses will be handled. This was a subject I did not know much about, and something that is constantly being improved. As we all know our information is stored in many places like schools and hospitals and it is important that we find a way to process this information efficiently.
Modesto Araujo
Source:
Lohr, Steve. (2010, September 21). I.B.M. Bids $1.7 Billion for Data Company. The New York Times, pp B2.
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21blue.html?_r=2&ref=international_business_machines
(The online article was posted online by the author a day before I found it on the paper)