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October 17, 2005
EII and McDonalds?
As I sit down to write this first entry, I am reminded of the speaker who tears up his prepared remarks in favor of off-the-cuff comments. How does that expression go, 'Even the best of intentions...'
EII is quite a hot topic these days, especially in the areas of business intelligence and reporting. To understand it, we must take a step back, look at the technology, and compare it to technologies perhaps more familiar in the BI world - like ETL.
Which was where I had intended to begin with EII Talk. But then something came along that just could not be ignored. A posting from of my colleagues that was fresh as the smell of bacon in the morning.
So we'll begin in the middle, using his analogy to understand how EII platforms deal with performance and scalability, two common questions/objections that always come up in an EII sale. Here's how it begins:
The other day, over lunch, I was trying to explain to a technology executive in another industry some of Ipedo’s advantages in EII. Inspired by our fast food surroundings, I came up with several analogies that might help explain (1) cost-based query optimization vs. rule-based optimization, (2) policy-based caching and automatic cache invalidation, and (3) concurrency. These are three key areas that affect EII performance, and ones in which Ipedo excels among EII vendors.
Read on about 'McEII - Cost-based Optimization, Caching, Concurrency, and the Big Mac.'
Posted by at October 17, 2005 11:45 AM
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