ebizQ's Business Agility Watch

Today I met with Marc Andrews, IBM's program director for data warehousing, about his company's announcement today regarding its new generation strategy of data warehousing.

The annoucement has four parts:

First, IBM plans to provide access to aggregated, clensed data in real time, in the context of business processes. Second, IBM is bringing the analytics capability directly to the warehouse, inside the application, tightly integrated, with analytics, basically providing an analytics-as-a-service feature, Marc said. Third, the strategy seeks to incorporate all types of data into the warehouse, including unstructured data. And fourth, IBM seeks to provide an integrated set of technologies "to support integration on demand, delivered on top of SOA, making BI part of the SOA stack," Marc said.