Preface
The path to here, for us, began in 2011. Data warehouses and BI solutions had become run of the mill; big data was gaining momentum. Sajid Usman (our boss) asked us a very simple but thought-provoking question: “What do you think about big data?” That got us thinking about big data. The definitions are plentiful and situational interpretations are plentiful as well. But a broader set of questions was lurking in our mind. What is the future of traditional data warehousing and BI applications? Are big data solutions a natural evolution of traditional BI applications? Should they co-exist? In our spare time, we started researching this topic, reading published papers, blogs, and other articles. By the end of 2011, a small but unmistakable ...
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