[Media reproduced please indicate the standards from China Business Intelligence Network BY] standard, which is a practice, or because of excellent and extensive recognition or use.
- American traditional dictionary
JOLAP, XML / A, JDBC, OLE- DB, ODBC, MDAPI, DCOM, CORBA, J2EE, even earlier MOM, our industrial standard creates so many professional terms. Standardization is a good thing. They make developers' products easier to use and configure. They have brought far more affected to business intelligence, and their application brings bright future.
Chaotic start
In the early stage of the data warehouse, we used the software and hardware to add people before we naming business intelligence, and we have created an environment. Hand-written ETL code, hand-painted design map occupies the main position. There was no BI standard because it was a very new, unknown concept and processing.
The earliest advocator had to establish an unknown area and have to create a solution. Even online analysis and treatment (OLA), no one heard of it, although today's analysis is already a standard standard.
Every area is unique, including many newer innovation technologies, but now we don't think about it. It is also quite expensive in those fields, and the function is limited, and their requirements have almost no software or hardware products, but some brave and dare-to-dare people begin to use. Only massive companies can pay the establishment of such areas. The cost and difficulties needed for a complete feature make smaller companies unacceptable.
Common feature
After more than 10 years, we started slowly realizing that some processing processes and technical features are shared in this area. This innovation has made early work repeated in other companies. The BI factory commercial industry can combine their knowledge they have learned. Their "standard" can make their products are cheaper and easier.
As BI becomes a billions of dollars, such as Microsoft, HP has begun to pay attention to this important technology. Starting their visibility by purchasing and merged with some small manufacturers and products. In addition, those giant enterprises began funding the internal development project to clearly support Bi.bi into an important period, not only those who can benefit from this analysis, but everyone has begun to establish standards. The era of Bi is coming!
Of course, each vendor wants its internal development standard to program the standards of the entire industry. If a manufacturer's standard or a standard programming industry standard, it is obvious that it is considerable value. Verification, review and acceptance of technical standards began to become a difficult political battle. All kinds of classes, organizations and standard groups create their standards to compete with others.
Winning standard
The beginning of this article has already intended the standard definition, and the standard is a widely recognized or used. No law enforcement manufacturers must be abide by; however, compliance with the entire industry is a good thing. If you want to sell the standard products in the market, you have to make a good story. How is it beneficial to comply with a common feature, this is ancient training.
Today, there are a lot of clear norms in the BI field. To some extent, we have a competitive standard (Jolap and XML / A are a good example), the last winner has not yet emerged. Who will decide? In the end, you will decide! Which standard victory and which standard exits the historical stage, or by the market decision - spending a dollar is a vote. How to choose standards, large tape recording systems and home recording systems in the United States are very clear examples.
Therefore, if the standard is inevitable, the manufacturer is encouraged to obey it, then what benefits do to manufacturers, what is the benefit of consumers? On the other hand, when the manufacturer chooses a group of standards, what does it lose?
Homological factors for manufacturers
Manufacturers adopt industrial standards, this standard must be able to contribute significant economic benefits for the company. Let's take a look at the importance of the current standard: For many vendors, competition is a simplified point of view, that is, the products they work hard can be sold to consumers than competitors. Therefore, the first advantage of using standards is to reduce development costs. HP is a typical example that has been a long period of time, and their integrated servers support industry standards, using standard interfaces for all hardware devices. These interfaces allow vendors to create a piece of code to run on any hardware platform, and cost is only a small part of the traditional solution. Traditional (non-standard) solutions have to develop a variety of platforms, greatly increase their cost.
The use of database standards means that the application software is easier to transplant. The creation of database standards makes the development time shorten and maintenance costs are reduced.
Hardware and database standards have a big impact on extracted, conversion, and loading (ETL); the integration of enterprise applications, and business information integration. For the tools, databases, and hardware independence, the independence of the database, and hardware, which directly leads to higher efficiency. In addition, as the market share has increased, their maintenance costs are also reduced.
The use of hardware and software open standards can also increase the universal adaptability of software products. In particular, Bi, in the mature BI field, because of the diversity of technical differences, the benefits are greater. Diversity includes the OLAP, performing simple queries and reports for data mining, or specialized data analysis.
Unfavorable factors for manufacturers
When the establishment of industrial standards brings absolute harvest, they also have some shortages of manufacturers. These shortages have the following points:
When a vendor must comply with a standard, it may suppress free innovation in the early stage of the BI stage. For example, if the current standard cannot include or support new interfaces, processing procedures, or attributes, vendors can only stop developing until standard changes or ventilation that manufacturers are incompatible with risk jump out of the standard.
Vendors who fail in standard disputes, that is, their standards will not be widely adopted by the market, and they may lose their competitive advantage. They have to be resolved their technical support for popular standards, waste time, increase the cost of the product.
It is difficult to change. Also, the difficulty of standard changes and the immigration of the initial acceptance and use are proportional. Think about how long the transfer time from DOS-based PC operating systems is.
Homological factors for consumers
For consumers, BI vendors use industrial standards that lower costs. This low cost has been open to greater possibilities and expected. Let us see other benefits to consumers:
It is possible for consumer's best benefits to standard compatible applications, databases, and hardware, cheap installation, use, and maintenance. In addition to these benefits, the training cost is lower and does not have to learn those individual software platform interfaces.
Standard compatible applications can share data. This means that less redundant data is less, that is, the same high data quality requires fewer storage costs.
The use of standard tools can interoperate mean more business choices, including tools and data sources for BI.
In addition, when there is a standard excuse, the integration between the software is very simple, convenient, and low.
Finally, consumers support standard compatible vendors protect them from closed manufacturers, avoid powerful manufacturers on closed technologies bullying weak consumers.
Unfavorable factors for consumers
Although the benefits are obvious, we should investigate the unfavorable factors. There are two important unfavorable factors when the standard is purchased when the standard is employed:
First, your company may have to replace those old technologies, and if those technologies are incompatible, they cannot use the latest standards. Many companies still have a large number of non-relational databases, and the old platform cannot utilize the advantages of the new standard. Our work will increase ETL and EAI processing, application interface, and data replication and migration.
Second, your company will have to change the use of industrial standards. Many companies have developed their own software and hardware standards, but there is no say in the industry. When the industry finally established and used a set of standards, the company's specifications had to give up. Furthermore, it is only possible in a small range, but in order to make full use of standard advantages, the company will have to fully adopt industrial standards. What does the standard mean the BI industry?
The ultimate goal of the BI vendor is to simplify the design, implementation, and maintenance of the BI solution, thus making the BI solution simpler and low installation. Before the standard is established, the price of the solution is only available in large enterprises before the cost of the standard and technical risk. Small and medium-sized companies cannot simply adopt unproven valid BI solutions.
The presence of HP, Microsoft and Inner makes mature BI solutions from any size enterprise application and payment. Every business is now capable of paying the cost of BI. Adopting and attachment to standards, such as industry standards, industrial standards, such as servers, operating systems, and processors, and BI are also open to everyone. Small and medium-sized enterprises are currently capable of using similar BIs, which can be used to use only important competitive advantages that can be used. Working with this change, we can see those manufacturers will become the next round of 2000 companies.
Conclude
The standard tends to its own independence. Usually, a time-out standard is replaced, it will stay for a long time, because "That is the general way to do things". Similarly, it is possible to consider feet as a length standard. The standard one feet is equal to 12 inches, why is it such a strange number? It is not 10 or 15 inches because 12 inches is the length of the feet of the past. That is to say, the length of our current standard is very arbitrary, using this standard habit, we can't change and update to make it better for today's society. We must be vigilant to check our standards, question their use, and if necessary, there is courage to change them.
