Author: macleanwalker
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How Data Works
Every business believes that their data is unique. However the storage and management of that data uses similar methods and technologies across all organisations. As a result the same issues of consistency, performance and quality occur across all organisations. The commercial difference between organisations is not whether they have data issues but how they react…
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Project Services HowTo
Objective Project Services is an integration of software and doman knowledge. Data Management & Warehousing has an approach to building data warehouses. This approach includes a number of templates and white papers including approaches to architecture, governance and documentation. In order to run a project using this approach it is useful to have a change…
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Data Warehouse Governance
An organisation that is embarking on a data warehousing project is undertaking a long-term development and maintenance programme of a computer system. This system will be critical to the organisation and cost a significant amount of money, therefore control of the system is vital. Governance defines the model the organisation will use to ensure optimal…
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Data Warehouse Documentation Roadmap
All projects need documentation and many companies provide templates as part of a methodology. This document describes the templates, tools and source documents used by Data Management & Warehousing. It serves two purposes: For projects using other methodologies or creating their own set of documents to use as a checklist. This allows the project to…
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BG Info
Microsoft BGInfo (formally SysInternals) One of the most commonly used utilities on Windows platforms is BG Info. It creates a replacement screen background with key information about the system configuration. BG Info provides a simple interface to select the items that you want which is very useful either on large blade configurations or using virtual machines…
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Project Services
Welcome to Project Services In the Data Management & Warehousing White Paper Data Warehouse Governance the importance of change control and issue tracking to a successful data warehousing project are highlighted. This paper also highlights the importance of a lightweight or agile development methodology and how using a wiki can help improve the develpment process. Project Services offers the following: A demonstration…
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From Volume to Value
A presentation given to the Oracle Business Intelligence forum for Telcos that discussed how businesses should move from collecting volume of data to using the value of the data. It sets the context about what issues businesses are facing and then suggests five actions that can be used to help address the issues. These are:…
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Overview Architecture for Enterprise Data Warehouses
This is the first of a series of papers published by Data Management & Warehousing to look at the implementation of Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions in large organisations using a design pattern approach. A design pattern provides a generic approach, rather than a specific solution. It describes the steps that architecture, design and build teams…
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The Continuous Data Quality Process Wallchart
The large format edition of the Continuous Data Quality Process wallchart is now available for download Download the Continuous Data Quality Process Wallchart now
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An Introduction To Process Neutral Data Modelling
A presentation given to the UK Oracle User Group about the technique of process neutral data modelling Process Neutral Data Modelling is A method of designing a data model for a data warehouse that is less affected by changes in source system and/or business process A technique that incorporates the metadata within the data model…
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