Demystifying the art of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

Data lakes as part of the logical data warehouse (LDW) have entered the trough of disillusionment. Some failures are due to lack of value from businesses focusing on the big data challenges and not the big analytics opportunity. After all, data is just data until you analyze it. While the data management aspect has been fairly well understood over the years, the success of business intelligence (BI) and analytics on data lakes lags behind. In fact, data lakes often fail because they are only accessible by highly skilled data scientists and not by business users. But BI tools have been able to access data warehouses for years, so what gives? Shant Hovsepian explains why existing BI tools are architected well for data warehouses but not data lakes, the pros and cons of each architecture, and why every organization should have two BI standards: one for data warehouses and one for data lakes.