tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368959.post5594915004764055384..comments2024-03-25T04:32:02.396-04:00Comments on Customer Experience Matrix: Youcalc: On-Demand Analytics Without Stored DataDavid Raabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03489754392712536104noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368959.post-25929604456948774712009-08-10T06:58:57.080-04:002009-08-10T06:58:57.080-04:00Ajay
I would be interested in learning about your...Ajay<br /><br />I would be interested in learning about your thoughts on real-time analytics on the source system and what you believe are required features.<br /><br />If you are interested in sharing your thoughts, please drop me a line at ram at youcalc dot com<br /><br />Rasmus<br />www.youcalc.comRasmushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184602426247659992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368959.post-27706229649588190112009-08-07T18:26:35.437-04:002009-08-07T18:26:35.437-04:00David
I remember from the days you used to write ...David<br /><br />I remember from the days you used to write about Marketing Automation. As usual, you get to the real technical issues quickly. <br /><br />There is one more issue with querying data directly from the source. If all the analytics can given based on source schema, then companies like Salesforce.com would have given analytics to begin with. Apart from performance, real-analysis requires looking at data differently than how it is represented in the OLTP schema. This does not necessarily require physical transformation, but so far, I haven't seen a credible approach that works on the source system itself.Travelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801794133849669681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368959.post-65990297000074083842009-08-04T12:07:04.487-04:002009-08-04T12:07:04.487-04:00David - thanks for covering youcalc
Re. point-in-...David - thanks for covering youcalc<br /><br />Re. point-in-time snapshots:<br />We see SaaS vendors (like sfdc) storing more and more historical data, keeping logs on more fields. They face the same problem of not being able to offer historical reporting with their built-in reporting tools so they have to solve it. It is a simple storage issue and storage is getting cheaper and cheaper. Surely, having a BI vendor store data because the SaaS vendor does not do it, is a short term opportunity only.<br />Alternatively, we see pure database/DW on demand vendors catering for that market – why not use Amazon S3 for the purpose, or force.com ? (SFDC could partner up wiothg Amazon an offer history storage as a premium service) – clients would have more faith in those platforms that a storage offering from an small BI vendor. <br /><br />We believe analytics vendors will end up sticking to what they are good at, i.e. analyzing data, not storing it.<br /><br />Rasmus<br />CEO - youcalcRasmushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184602426247659992noreply@blogger.com