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Rick from Comprehend here: Comprehend isn't a BI tool. If all of a company's data is well-structured in a single database, with a non-changing data structure a
by rmorrison 14y ago
Rick from Comprehend here:
Comprehend isn't a BI tool. If all of a company's data is well-structured in a single database, with a non-changing data structure and without missing or null data, then it's easy to use BI tools like Tableau, Spotfire, Excel, etc.
But this is not the case in the modern day enterprise. Instead, there are dozens of different data collection systems, with different and changing data structures. This is what Comprehend's core technology was built to handle, in real-time.
In order to get similar functionality, companies are typically relying on teams of programmers to manually write and run scripts over and over again. Or, they're trying to put in place data warehouses, which rarely contain everything required and are often out of date.
- polskibus 14y agoWhat you described is just standard ETLs in any Data Warehouse system - again in my opinion a typical functionality in a BI stack. QlikView tries to do it in-memory and live but it puts strain on OLTP systems for example freezing cash machines (seen it!). Every system requires maintenance, question is where's Comprehend's maintenance effort placed?