Data, Data, Everywhere - What's a Person to Do?

When analyzing exabytes of data from either radio telescopes, or from giant retailers like Walmart to user Web searches  a lot of effort will have to be spent in clearly defining the problem space. Some sort of statistical analysis tools will have to be used where the data is separated into different buckets based on frequency of occurrence. Subsequently the trends can be analyzed.

John, we may add some of the entities resulting from the analysis of such Enterprise data to SID, if not already there.

And, in the future use these entities to define the buckets as Tinniam and you discuss, for BI analysis and reporting.

Adrian

In practice, just like we have the List-of-<BusinessInteraction> for instance (i.e. a typed container), you could think about modelling a Warehouse-of-<UsageData>...(IPDR).

It would be interesting to think about the characteristics and functionality of such a container. Random access isn't one of them, obviously :) but these could be:

.trend (?)

.project (futureTime)

Each of these implies a huge server farm to carry it out, but that's what we architects do: lay down one layer of abstraction on top of another, eh?

Should the SID and the NGOSS now include a section on data management (not only in the static model but the process framework as well)? How is this related to the Usage Data Management group's domain? It could use specific domain constructs...?

I miss the fun...

Cheers

in a telco landscape, the question "What approach should be taken to catalog such a wealth of data?" could be read as referring to

1. a generic view, i.e. the logical modelling of transactional data coming from "traditional" eTOM "SIP" and "Operations" pillars. The answer here might be that SID is the perfect tool to be used, at least at the "blue print" level, in the logical model of the enterprise data warehouse.  

or

2. a specific view, focused on how to handle what the article calls “Data exhaust”. As I'm currently struggling to find which SID ABE is best describing "on-line" activity, with its multitude of “customer” clicks, i.e. to check bills, usage meters, etc, I don't have any answer... however, and  I would welcome any suggestion :-)

Thanks

Silvia