Panorama Business Intelligence

In the last couple of years BI has evolved in many ways leading to 2 kinds of BI solutions for the enterprise:
- Strategic, data warehouse based

- Tactical without a need for data warehouse

The strategic deployments take a bit longer to deploy on one hand but eventually provide a much richer set of unified applications that let users better interact with data that is being aggregated, giving the users more ways to find very powerful business insights.

The ‘tactical’ solutions give departments ways to select data from various systems and instantly start creating reports from them. Like in most cases in life there isn’t any ‘free lunch’ and those solutions, mostly using proprietary and closed memory based databases such as QlikTech (Qlikview), do not offer significant data navigation capabilities and mostly focus on building semi static reports and fancy looking dashboards but lack the power associated with BI.

So what is the solution?

First and foremost, there is major innovation in the space and companies such as Microsoft are working hard to release a new and open in memory platform that is not proprietary and will take those ad-hoc and more tactical solutions to new heights. [Code Name: Gemini]
Panorama is also taking a leadership position by combining the best of interactive OLAP based solutions and “no data warehouse” approach with a new solution that builds real OLAP cubes from data that resides in any system but at the same time hides the OLAP complexity from the users, allowing ah-hoc querying.

Any of those new solutions will give customers a more interactive and powerful BI solution without compromising too much on the speed of deployment that the tactical solutions provide.