The DM Radio Webcast, “The Last Mile: Data Visualization in a Mashed-Up” from Information Management continues. The transcript of that Webcast, which was hosted by Eric Kavanagh and included InetSoft's Product Manager Byron Igoe and BI consultants William Laurent and Malcolm Chisholm resumes below:
Eric Kavanagh (EK): Yeah, it seems to me that’s the glue that holds everything together, and if you could somehow weave together a patchwork that employs semantic technology to help you with your metadata, and then you have this array of data marts from which people can federate queries. And maybe we’re getting a bit too technical, but one last comment maybe before our next break from Byron. What do you think of this ideal world we have been discussing? You have this array of data marts and you can essentially mix and match to create your own dashboard on the fly?
Byron Igoe (BI): Yeah, within organizations, it probably makes a lot more sense. I know others are thinking about interoperability with externalities, vendors, external users and such, and how can this internal data I have be shared in a meaningful way with others. But within an enterprise for developing mashups of all of your internal data, whether it be formal data marts or Web services, but also informal, you just want to upload a spreadsheet and mix and match that with all my live data, and then building a visualization on top of that. I think within the enterprise it makes a lot more sense to people, and a lot these issues of how do we speak a common language disappear.
EK: Let’s bring in Malcolm and William to discuss the evolving role of IT and the usefulness of mashups. William, what do you think? Do you think that is a red herring or we are on to something?
William Laurent (WL): No, any evolution in IT is not a red herring. What I find interesting, is the federated approach and the ad hoc approach that we have talked about is diametrically opposed to the SOA approach that we see being used in systems everywhere these days, and I think it’s important to keep the concepts of mashup more nimble, and more agile. Especially as thing gravitate towards cloud computing, and we’re storing our data in the cloud type format, I am looking at how can we leverage the cloud for mashups? How can we leverage open source? How can we support the markup language and Flash and AJAX and Silverlight, and all in the same wrapper or same package?
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