Re:Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
by blakeburch on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:11AM
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While I'm not super familiar with Knime, it looks like it falls into the legacy BI category that Benn talks about. An "all-in-one" for your data.
Is the platform still easily used by business users? Or does it primarily become a gated way for Data Engineers to build/action on data?
A lot of decisions can't be easily visualized in your standard dashboard. You can forecast the potential of those automated decisions, but that's still black box logic. You really need more of a middle ground that lets you preview "given these inputs, show me what the output would be".
Re:Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
by viraptor on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:02PM
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> Is the platform still easily used by business users?
I don't know and honestly I don't believe there's a system that actually achieves it. But this it does go beyond BI in actually being aimed towards running code based on results. Which makes it closer to Labview-with-graphs than to BI.
Re:Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
by vgeek on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:40AM
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This. Knime is similar to BI tools, but it is more action oriented. The reports may not be as pretty, but it can handle the entire ETL pipeline and actually do things besides make interactive pivot tables.
I think the visualisation matters though. It's much easier to convince people that the automated actions are worth doing once the related data is visualised. And at that point, whatever provides you both may be the best solution.