How far under the duvet?

[Shaggy Hiker]

We've discussed just creating a series of APIs that can be accessed internally for building whatever app people want to build. That sounds a lot like what you are talking about. This appears to be much more applicable if the app in question is some kind of data presentation, web site, Augmented Reality, or similar type of thing. REST services, Web Services, and the like would all be viable means to that end, but we haven't completely bought into it, yet. The skill level has improved, but it is patchy, and will probably remain that way.

[szlamany]

It's a holy grail that will never be attained.

I've watched ivory tower educators attempt to implement data mining tools that would bring the "data" to the hands of the "users" for "self analysis"

10 years later - nada - can't do it. Still want the IT dept to build those data mining queries. Let them do it themselves - with all those neat selections and query by examples - they ultimately get it wrong.

Can't do the IT job at the non-IT level.

Blame it on the data mining software?? They do that over and over again (making the software houses that produce that software big $$'s) - but still no one at the non-IT level wants to do anything other then get the data handed to them "pre-processed".

In my world there is still a clear demarc between tech and user. And being in the education world you would think that line would fade first.

It's all FM to them (the M is magic - you figure out what the F is )