Data Wants to Be Free 08/10/2011
Data wants to be free. What does that mean? Should it be free of cost? Or should it be accessible?
In a way, it should be both. Data's cost should trend cheaper and cheaper to store and access. But the cost to develop the data and the value of the data can be very high. Customer information, IP, and crucial performance information for a business is very valuable.
Free also means that data want to be available. It wants to be captured and available to provide context and importance. Data should be available to people when they need it. This is actually difficult to do sometimes, but is getting easier. Xenial has worked with several clients on their reporting projects to make sure that their data is available and timely.
A cool tool that helps visualize data is Tableau: Tableausoftware.com check them out. It is easy to drag and drop reports and visualize the data. It may not be right for all organizations, but this is a great step forward in what is happening today in business intelligence and data visualization.
In a way, it should be both. Data's cost should trend cheaper and cheaper to store and access. But the cost to develop the data and the value of the data can be very high. Customer information, IP, and crucial performance information for a business is very valuable.
Free also means that data want to be available. It wants to be captured and available to provide context and importance. Data should be available to people when they need it. This is actually difficult to do sometimes, but is getting easier. Xenial has worked with several clients on their reporting projects to make sure that their data is available and timely.
A cool tool that helps visualize data is Tableau: Tableausoftware.com check them out. It is easy to drag and drop reports and visualize the data. It may not be right for all organizations, but this is a great step forward in what is happening today in business intelligence and data visualization.
