Comments on: IBM is buying Cognos – quick reactions http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Everybody’s talking about structured/unstructured integration http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59924 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Everybody’s talking about structured/unstructured integration Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:04:48 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59924 [...] big news is IBM’s $5 billion acquisition of Cognos. Part of the call was two customer examples of how the companies had worked together in the past [...] [...] big news is IBM’s $5 billion acquisition of Cognos. Part of the call was two customer examples of how the companies had worked together in the past [...]

]]> By: IBM is buying Cognos http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59923 IBM is buying Cognos Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:58:05 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59923 [...] buying Cognos? I did not see this one coming. A few weeks ago, I heard rumors of a pan-canadian research [...] [...] buying Cognos? I did not see this one coming. A few weeks ago, I heard rumors of a pan-canadian research [...]

]]> By: Mark Tsimelzon http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59920 Mark Tsimelzon Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:39:41 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59920 Agree 100%! --Mark Agree 100%!

–Mark

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59916 Curt Monash Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:17:09 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59916 Absolutely, Mark! CEP-like approaches are one of the leading candidates to provide this performance boost. Frankly, I think that the query processing engines, end-user (dashboard) UIs, and administrative UIs of BI tools are ALL headed for revolutionary change. But ... well, revolutions are difficult and bloody. Continued more gradual evolution is certainly also a realistic possibility. But you did miss one point I was alluding to -- real-time responsiveness is only a byproduct of the biggest change needed in dashboards. The more important change is greater personalization and customization of the queries, filters, and KPIs. It just so happens that CEP-like technologies look applicable even when the traditional raw speed of CEP isn't important. Doing a lot of RELATED queries efficiently is one of you guys' core competencies. Best, CAM Absolutely, Mark!

CEP-like approaches are one of the leading candidates to provide this performance boost.

Frankly, I think that the query processing engines, end-user (dashboard) UIs, and administrative UIs of BI tools are ALL headed for revolutionary change. But … well, revolutions are difficult and bloody. Continued more gradual evolution is certainly also a realistic possibility.

But you did miss one point I was alluding to — real-time responsiveness is only a byproduct of the biggest change needed in dashboards. The more important change is greater personalization and customization of the queries, filters, and KPIs. It just so happens that CEP-like technologies look applicable even when the traditional raw speed of CEP isn’t important. Doing a lot of RELATED queries efficiently is one of you guys’ core competencies.

Best,

CAM

]]> By: Mark Tsimelzon http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59914 Mark Tsimelzon Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:46:47 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/11/12/ibm-is-buying-cognos-%e2%80%93-quick-reactions/#comment-59914 > I think fixing the disappointment that is dashboards will involve taking query volumes up by at least 2 to 3 orders of magnitude. This is certainly one way to improve dashboards, make them more real-time and more relevant. Just query more and more often. The other, as you and I discussed, is the route of Complex Event Processing. CEP introduces the notion of continuous queries, i.e., the queries that continuously listen to incoming real-time data or events, analyze them, correlate them with other real-time events and with historical data, and feed results to real-time dashboards. Cognos had acquired Celequest in 2006, and Celequest was an early, however limited, example of a CEP product. Modern CEP tools go much, much further. Mark Tsimelzon President & CTO, Coral8. > I think fixing the disappointment that is dashboards will involve taking query volumes up by at least 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.

This is certainly one way to improve dashboards, make them more real-time and more relevant. Just query more and more often.

The other, as you and I discussed, is the route of Complex Event Processing. CEP introduces the notion of continuous queries, i.e., the queries that continuously listen to incoming real-time data or events, analyze them, correlate them with other real-time events and with historical data, and feed results to real-time dashboards.

Cognos had acquired Celequest in 2006, and Celequest was an early, however limited, example of a CEP product. Modern CEP tools go much, much further.

Mark Tsimelzon
President & CTO, Coral8.

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