The Briefing Room with John Myers and Pentaho Live Webcast April 28, 2015 Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=8cb3ef0a35b948ec374f330cb5de752a A well-oiled enterprise depends upon the quality of its data. From business intelligence to data science, users require clean, governed data sets to blend, enrich and explore, without worrying about changes in data flows or models. The shortest path to insight involves providing users with direct access to the data preparation process and the ability to blend data from highly diverse sources – but what are the risks? Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst John Myers as he outlines best practices for the self-service, intelligent enterprise. He’ll be briefed by Chuck Yarbrough of Pentaho, who will tout his company’s Big Data Integration and Analytics Platform and discuss Big Data Blueprints, the Streamlined Data Refinery, a virtual on-demand data mart generator that gives users access to the data they need. He will also explain how well-governed data orchestration, along with pragmatic design patterns, can create an agile analytics environment for information workers across the board. Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information.

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coffee and
enjoy the
pre-­show
banter
before the
top of the
hour!

2. The Briefing Room
Big Data Refinery: Distilling Value for User-Driven Analytics

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Welcome
Host:
Eric Kavanagh
eric.kavanagh@bloorgroup.com
@eric_kavanagh

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Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise
software, good and bad
Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s innovative
technologies
Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy
analysts
Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and
get answers!
Mission

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Topics
April: BIG DATA
May: CLOUD
June: INNOVATORS

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Refinery is the Perfect Term
Ø Data Quality is a byproduct
Ø Master Data Management is an enabler
Ø Data Integration is changing

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Analyst: John Myers
John Myers is Managing
Research Director of
Business Intelligence at
Enterprise Management
Associates

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Pentaho
Pentaho offers a variety of business intelligence and
analytics products
Pentaho’s platform includes the Streamlined Data Refinery,
which provides access to any data source, and includes data
integration, governance, discovery, analysis and
visualization
Pentaho’s solution is designed to be user-driven for ease of
access and self-service

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Guest: Chuck Yarbrough
Chuck is the Director of Big Data Product
Marketing at Pentaho, a leading big data
analytics company that helps organizations
engineer big data connections, blend data
and report and visualize all of their data.
Much of Chuck's focus at Pentaho is in
educating organizations on how big data
can help win, serve and retain customers,
lower costs and grow revenue through the
proper use of big data. A life-long
participant in the data game, Chuck has
held leadership roles at Deloitte
Consulting, SAP Business Objects, Hyperion
and National Semiconductor.

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Perceptions & Questions
Analyst:
John Myers

11. Third Alternative Between Artistry and
Commodity
Slide 11

12. Artistry vs Commodity
2Years
8Hours
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13. Customizable Applications:
Best of Both Worlds
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14. Design Patterns:
Connecting Big Data
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15. Data Refining with a Hybrid Data Ecosystem
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16. Questions
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17. Discussion Questions
• Why not just use the data integration tools
that exist within the Hadoop “stack”? For
example, sqoop and flume are both provided by
Hadoop
• There are differences between sandbox
environments and “operationalizating” data
integration for on-going operations. How can
Pentaho’s blueprints make those tasks
easier?
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18. Discussion Questions
• “Data Refinery” brings up images of a one-way
process from a crude state to a finished product
– much a like crude oil being “cracked” into
various products like heating oil, motor oil,
gasoline and jet fuel. Does Pentaho view the
“refining” of data as a one way proposition?
Or a more bi/multi-directional approach?
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19. Discussion Questions
• Data governance is a wide ranging practice in
the work of data management. How does
Pentaho position itself within the breadth of
the concept of data governance?
• Some have described “data wrangling” via the
Stanford wrangle project as self-service data
integration. How does Pentaho compare/
contrast with wrangle’s approach?
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