Today's business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DW) platforms are highly adapted to their environments; however, they are less suited to use outside of these environments. The same might be said for big data platforms, too.
The DW and big data: Two platforms, two very different purposes, two agendas – seemingly on a collision course. It isn't so much a question of which platform vision will triumph, but of how two such different visions can be reconciled.
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