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May 21, 2012

A Look At Google BigQuery

Filed under: Business Intelligence,Google BigQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 6:55 pm

A Look At Google BigQuery

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.

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