So is SPICE an actual data warehouse or is it more a query engine such as Presto, Hive or Spark?
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How was this different from when Apple anncouned new iPhones, iPads and Apple TV's last month? Or when Google announced the new chrome cast and music streaming device? Both were at the top on their respective days and discussed ad nauseam in the comments.
> How was this different from when Apple anncouned new iPhones, iPads and Apple TV's last month? It's not. I'm not sure why you're asking this.
Are you implying that all of the big tech companies are paying for upvotes on hackernews? Do you think that's more likely than a tech focused news site thinking that these events have interesting announcements?
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#113Having worked in some form BI for almost the entirety of my career now, there is not a single, consistent form of BI dashboard that is prevalent across any company. Every solution ends up being unique, because every company has a unique data set-up, stakeholders, definition of metrics, and access needs. I've worked with Tableau, Domo, Oracle products, you name it. What's the solution that is passed around the most? E…
Hi Vicki,
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> one report that a client says is mission critical, but is never used. My dad started developing software in the late 60s. As a kid (let's say circa 1982, definitely in the minicomputer era), I remember him talking about a problem at work: to do all their daily processing, they needed about 28 hours. A lot of the workload was reporting, so he asked managers what reports were no longer useful. Naturally, he was assur…
Well, the only issue I can see with that now a days is if one such report is actually needed only for compliance purposes. Then, five years down the line, an audit happens and 1825 copies of that required daily report happen to be missing...
Then someone should be verifying that they're being created. Same idea with backups whereas you're suppose to check and verify them, even if you're not "using" them.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> one report that a client says is mission critical, but is never used. My dad started developing software in the late 60s. As a kid (let's say circa 1982, definitely in the minicomputer era), I remember him talking about a problem at work: to do all their daily processing, they needed about 28 hours. A lot of the workload was reporting, so he asked managers what reports were no longer useful. Naturally, he was assur…
Well, the only issue I can see with that now a days is if one such report is actually needed only for compliance purposes. Then, five years down the line, an audit happens and 1825 copies of that required daily report happen to be missing...
Well at least they didn't worry about the report on leap days.
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I work at Domo, in the team that covers the Bay Area. How long ago did you use the product? We dogfood it obsessively internally. Have found it extremely frictionless on the sharing side. Two ways to share: 1. For an internal use case, you can native "@-tag" any other user. https://www.domo.com/product/domobuzz 2. For an external sharing use-case, you can share a slideshow. Live example (fake data): https://modocorp.…
I use it regularly. It's not so much about sharing,which is easy and works well, but about getting data into Domo. Pain point to format data and schedule exports, update them, set up new exports, etc.
Just wanted to reemphasize sibling comment's petition for feedback on Domo. I work on the data pipeline team at Domo, and we love hearing ways to make the process simpler for our users. If you haven't already, be sure to ping adammichaelc with your use case and problems.
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#118There are so many BI tools around that it's hard to figure out which solution is going to be best for a particular use case. Creating further confusion, it seems like most "enterprise" BI products aren't explained properly on their websites and are hidden behind "request a demo". It's nearly impossible to evaluate all the possibilities without going crazy.
I want to be able to generate my domain models in some way. Point and click data descriptions are awful. Letting certain people work with raw data is fine, but a lot of users are going to want to work with names that make sense to them. Let me define models with text, just like ORM models.
I want row based security. Let me assign groups to values on certain models. This essentially boils down to hidden filters and required tables.
It should all be web based. I'm not exposing my database directly to customers.
It should definitely not cost 100k a year.
I like the idea of QuickSight, but I can already see that it's not going to work for my needs. But at least they give an upfront description and price. Here's hoping the pricing model drives down the crazy license fees the other vendors are extracting.
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#119At first glance, this seems like a Tableau competitor. So I'm surprised to see Tableau listed as a partner.
Looker ( http://www.looker.com ), Periscope ( http://www.periscope.io ), Mode Analytics ( http://www.modeanalytics.com ), and Chart.io ( http://www.chart.io ) should probably be even more worried than Tableau.
Co-founder and CTO of Mode here. I'm not too concerned that visual exploration is going to replace SQL for ad-hoc data analysis or data modeling for business intelligence. I think proprietary viz platforms are strictly inferior to open sourced ecosystems like Vega in any case. Open ecosystems win over closed ecosystems in the long-run.
We're more interested in integrating the tools and ecosystems people are already using in novel ways than we are in being yet another dashboard or visualization tool. Dashboards and visualizations are incredibly valuable but they're just one of the many ways that analytics teams deliver value to the organization. There are a lot of "jobs to be done" for an analytics team and the list isn't getting any shorter.
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#120I've been working exclusively in implementing BI solutions for the past five years. The thing that depresses me the most is not that BI solutions take forever to implement and cost a lot, but that clients many times just don't understand the data they are trying to report on. Many times it leads to over-engineered BI solutions just for one report that a client says is mission critical, but is never used. I'm sure mor…
There is an interesting phenomenon that I've noticed about BI: By the time data is appropriately gathered, cleaned, aggregated, and presented, the data is so closely aligned to the decision process that the decisions themselves might as well be automated and optimized. But that never happens. We build reports so that executives can look at them and feel important while they make slower and less optimal decisions than…
I agree and am trying to solve that problem. Interested in collaborating? Send me an email (address in user profile).