You may be confused about data discovery and business intelligence technologies; it seems they are very close to each other or even BI tools can do all what data discovery can do. And why do we need a separate data discovery tool, such as, SAP Lumira?
In order to better understand the difference between the two technologies, you can look at the table below:
Enterprise BI |
Data discovery | |
---|---|---|
Key users |
All users |
Advanced analysts |
Approach |
Vertically-oriented (top to bottom), semantic layers, requests to existing repositories |
Vertically-oriented (bottom-up), mushup, putting data in the selected repository |
Interface |
Reports, dashboards |
Visualization |
Users |
Reporting |
Analysis |
Implementation |
By IT consultants |
By business users |
Let's consider the pros and cons of data discovery:
Pros:
Rapidly analyze data with a short shelf life
Ideal for small teams
Best for tactical analysis
Great for answering on-off questions quickly
Cons:
As a result, it is clear that BI and data discovery handles their own tasks and complement each other.