Architecting the Industrial Internet

Other analyst tools

Other analysts in your organization likely want to simply understand what happened or the outcomes of predictive analyses prior to making business decisions. If the organization has a data warehouse, many will already be familiar with ad-hoc query and analysis business intelligence tools and the reports such tools can produce, or are downloading the data from the warehouse to manipulate it in Excel spreadsheets for this purpose.

As noted earlier, in a Lambda architecture defined for IIoT solutions, NoSQL databases and Hadoop clusters (data lakes) often reside alongside the legacy data warehouses. Over the past decade, SQL support in these data-management systems has improved, and the same business intelligence tools are ...