In the first two post of this series (here and here) I first suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used as the platform for staging and then suggested that a modern warehouse would have a federation layer that turned it into a logical data warehouse. Figure 3 depicts this extended architecture. Figure 3: A Logical…

In the first post of this series (here) I suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used as the platform for staging. Figure 2 describes the result. In this post I will extend the architecture by adding a data federation feature and turning the entire picture into a logical data warehouse… and then we’ll consider the…

Gary Gauba, founder, chairman, and CEO of Cognilytics, shares how they are changing the game by leveraging SAP HANA and SAP Predictive Analysis. Jason Rose, vice president of business intelligence marketing at SAP, digs deeper to get examples of how Cognilytics is applying predictive and advanced analytics to big data for their customers.

In this series I will present a perspective on how the classic EDW architecture is changing under the influence of new technologies, new requirements, and new economics. Part 1 will show the first of three architectural changes by introducing a data lake into the picture… in Part 2 we’ll extend the picture by adding a…