Chris Webb writes:
Over the years I’ve written quite a few posts about Google’s BI capabilities. Google never seems to get mentioned much as a BI tools vendor but to me it’s clear that it’s doing a lot in this area and is consciously building up its capabilities; you only need to look at things like Fusion Tables (check out these recently-added features), Google Refine and of course Google Docs to see that it’s pursuing a self-service, information-worker-led vision of BI that’s very similar to the one that Microsoft is pursuing with PowerPivot and Data Explorer.
Earlier this month Google announced the launch of BigQuery and I decided to take a look. Why would a Microsoft BI loyalist like me want to do this, you ask? Well, there are a number of reasons:
Looks like an even handed report to me.
See what you think about it and BigQuery.