Tibco makes real-time BI play - comment from Steve Jones, Capgemini
Steve Jones, Head of Service-Oriented Architecture, Capgemini believes Tibco Software acquiring business intelligence (BI) firm Spotfire makes a lot of sense.
9 May 2007
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Completing the purchase of Spotfire by Tibco will help their efforts to provide an event-driven infrastructure that assists customers making real-time decisions.
Steve says, “a lot of the information being generated by SOA is being used to feed data warehouses. The interesting thing is what Tibco is going to do with Spotfire. Spotfire has a lot of interesting ways to view information; is Tibco viewing this as a way to get at information as a portal or moving from after-hours analytics to real-time? Olap cubes need massive calculations but it’s certainly possible to perform real-time analytics. You need architectures that can do the incremental summations, rather than doing it in one big hit.. In some areas, such as fraud protection, there’s not much point in finding the answer the next morning.”
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Steve Jones is the author of “Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies”, a member of the OASIS SOA Reference Model and Open Group business architecture groups and regular presenter at various technology, business and SOA conferences.
Steve is currently working as the Head of SOA and SaaS for Capgemini’s global outsourcing business, working out how SOA can be used to add innovation, deliver value and reduce costs in the 80 percent of IT spend that goes on Business as Usual.
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