Data Management & Warehousing

Category: Techniques

  • BI SaaS & Cloud Strategies for Telcos

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    An ETIS presentation from Brussels in March 2013 This presentation looks at what SaaS and Cloud mean for BI and analytics in Telcos. Read more in the presentation … Download BI SaaS & Cloud Strategies for Telcos now

  • It’s time for Slow Business Intelligence

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    I have been aware for a few months of the Slow Web Movement, which, like other parts of the slow movement, advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life’s pace. More specifically it is about getting more value and less volume from the web, getting quality information when it is appropriate and not being overwhelmed…

  • OS X Mountain Lion Tips

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    This brief blog post is a summary of the various things we have found on the upgrades of our Apple Mac infrastructure. It is primarily intended for internal use however it may prove useful to others. Some of this information is widely available and was prior to the release of Mountain Lion. MacBooks from 2007…

  • Our Toolbox – Essential Software

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    A data warehouse project will usually involve many pieces of software. These can be broken into two categories – architectural software and supporting tools. The architectural software will include the database, ETL tool, reporting tools, etc. but in this post I am going to look at the supporting tools we use. I should say from…

  • Installing R and RStudio on Redhat/CentOS Linux

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    As part of our forthcoming magazine article “Building an Analytical Platform” for SAP we described the need to install both R and RStudio. Our test system is an older CentOs 5.8 Linux box and so needs to use the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) packages As ‘root’ on your system perform the following four…

  • Creating Graphics for BI Reports in Ruby on Rails

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    So your manager wants reports with sexy graphs – what are your options and what are the pros and cons I have found eight usable packages with different considerations OpenFlashChart This is a series of libraries including one for Ruby that allow the generation of great looking charts that are very dynamic (see the demo…

  • Project Services HowTo

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    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…

  • BG Info

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    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…

  • Project Services

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    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…

  • Installing CVS on Windows

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    Installing CVS on Windows To access and work with the the CVS repositories you must install a CVS client on your Windows PC that can talk to the CVS servers. There are scores of CVS clients available, but at a minimum you must install the CVS command line client. This document also includes the instructions…