BI Architecture needs an XDW architecture and a willingness to change with technology to support new demands from Big Data

This article by Colin White and Claudia Imhoff discusses the need for an XDW architecture to support BI in the future.  When you then add to it the insights from this article by Jack Vaughan where he talks about how the rush to big data could potentially turn data management on it's head you can see that there are a lot of changes hitting the Data Management field at the same time.

It seems to me that we need to keep an open mind and be willing to adapt to whatever new technology hits us.  The trick is to work out what is here to stay and what is only transitory.