Review "Learning Hadoop "

Learning Hadoop 2 book

With almost 350 pages, 'Learning Hadoop 2', I was very pleasantly surprised!

This is a book that chapter by chapter, provides a guide with the appropriate depth in the apprenticeship of this technology, which is today one of the most flourishing. It has a lot of examples that we can execute and analyze..

BI USABILITY: evolution and tendencies

Introduction

What is known today by the name Business Intelligence (BI) has an origin and evolution that should be looked at in order to introduce the concept that will be the subject of this article: “BI Usability”.

One of the principal goals of BI is that users find the information they need to make decisions in due time and proper form. The form includes, among other things, the format in which the information is presented and the level of interaction expected to obtain the desired result. The previous points make up the term “BI Usability”.

 

Usability can be defined as software’s ease of use, in which factors such as the familiarity of the design, comfort, attractiveness, level of interaction permitted, response time, etc. also come into play.

Various definitions of usability have been selected to complement the concept: (*1):