Business unIntelligence: Insight and Innovation beyond Analytics and Big Data
As the person who defined the conceptual framework and physical architecture for data warehousing in the 1980s, Barry Devlin has been an astute observer of the movement he initiated ever since. Now, in Business unIntelligence, Devlin provides a sweeping view of the past, present, and future of business intelligence, while delivering new conceptual and physical models for how to turn information into insights and action. Reading Devlins prose and vision of BI are comparable to reading Carl Sagans view of the cosmos. The book is truly illuminating and inspiring. --Wayne Eckerson, President, BI Leader ConsultingBusiness Intelligence is entering a period of profound change and Business unIntelligence is destined to become an important work in understanding why. Dr Devlin exposes how BI remains resolutely disconnected from the business processes and people it is supposed to support and how it is simply not keeping pace with new forms of data afforded by mobile, social and the internet of things. It is a rigorous examination, not just of what is missing, but what is needed to support the emerging and agile business of tomorrow. --Dale RobertsThis important book succeeds in finding the common ground between rationality and intuition, intelligence and insight, stability and innovation, business and IT. From rightful criticism of today's data-centric BI, you are taken into broader contexts such as working with information rather than data and coping with both big data and the insides of people s heads. The target is the biz-tech ecosystem , not just EDW/BI. We, the information-driven, move up to the enterprise level. Full of good recaps of history and technology the end-result is a direction-setting, holistic architecture on two levels indeed an impressive tour de force! --Thomas Frisendal, Author of "Design Thinking Business Analysis"