While companies have increasingly been adopting cloud for certain business solutions, including e-mail, sales management applications and the like, there are few that have entrusted their core data to the cloud.
So says Chris O'Connell, MD of BITanium, who points out this is due to a number of reasons, including concerns with security, reliability of cloud environments, issues with ownership of what is put in the cloud, and in South Africa, constraints on bandwidth.
"Typically, data warehouses contain huge amounts of data, and moving such data across our expensive communications infrastructure is prohibitive," says O'Connell.
O'Connell will address these issues during his presentation: "Data and analytics in the cloud - really?" at the ITWeb Business Intelligence Summit 2015, in Johannesburg, next week.
"Analytics typically places a large demand on the underlying technology. Cloud means availability anywhere, anytime, any volume, with low latency and everything on demand. Deep analytics use massive amounts of data for the advanced processing required to create data-driven insights. This means it can stress any installation, and, in the case of cloud deployments, could place stress on the infrastructure, database, and specifically, the networks. This, of course, is dependent on the types of technology deployed, and whether these have been built for cloud, or just adapted from traditional environments," he says.
"In SA, we have reached a relatively high level of maturity, at least when we consider traditional BI. We are further seeing an increasing momentum of using analytics in the frontline of the business, essentially deployment of advanced analytics in real-time for active decision-making in the business.
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"Where we see companies struggle at times is knowing where to start. They have the skill and the clever people, but they have just not done this before," adds O'Connell.
He will be joined at this 10th annual conference by several BI subject matters experts, all of whom have been briefed to deliver presentations focused on the event theme: "Turning insights into profits".
Delegates will also have access to local case studies from various industry sectors, tailored tracks, two interactive workshops and an expo featuring the latest in tools and technologies.
Click here to find out more about this BI summit and to register.
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