Analytical Diaries

Whenever I speak to clients about BI, and more and more often active BI, we slip into integration challenges and how to best tackle them. Having our main client base in the financial services, they most often prefer the good old data integration approach. Sound yet expensive, complete yet inflexible I would add my judgemental pennies.

The more daring or technology savvy would then inquire about service layers, often already dreaming of the enterprise wide service bus, or at least a project to implement it, or at least the budget to architect it. Didn’t the musical ETs already know it back in RHPS times – if you can dream it, you can be it.

But when I start to fantasize about mashups and that they should let go even further from their strict reigns of strong integration I regularly get the odd look. That’s where you come into play:

- Who has made some practical use of mashups with regards to BI use cases for the Financial Services?
- And who is willing to share them?

Thanks for your feedback
-Tom