Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Business Intelligence

  • Addressing Business Intelligence Data Quality

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    A friend of mine posted a link to Michael W. Dobson’s TeleMapics Blog entitled Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps about Apple’s problems with the release of their own mapping solution with iOS6. These problems are well documented elsewhere but Michael’s post highlights problems not just associated with mapping data but common across…

  • Building An Analytical Platform

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    Reprint of an article published by SAP about a recent piece of work I have recently been asked to build an analytical platform for a project – but what is an analytical platform? The client (a retailer) described it as a database where they could store data, a front end where they could do statistical work…

  • Gathering Business Requirements for Data Warehouses

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    This presentation is our template that we use for “Gathering Business Requirements” workshop as part of the Data Management & Warehousing Data Warehouse Documentation Roadmap process The agenda of a workshop is normally: Overview of the process Why gather requirements like this? Types of requirement Understanding what we can do Business processes create data Understanding dimensions…

  • Business Intelligence – BPR by the back door?

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    In a recent discussion with a client I was asked how come we knew, as a Business Intelligence company, so much about business process and operational systems. My reply is a sincere view that I have held for some time – developing good Business Intelligence means implementing Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) to enable the organisation…

  • Implementing Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Governance

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    This presentation outlines six governance processes that we believe cover the entire Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Lifecycle Data Lifecycle Data Models Data Quality Data Security Data Warehousing Metadata And describes our people and process template approach to delivery Download Implementing Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Governance Now

  • Agile Business Intelligence

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    This ETIS presentation from Cyprus in October 2011 This presentation describes what Agile really means for Business Intelligence and then describes some ways in which large organisations can make themselves more agile including: Team Structures Wiki-fy Everything Use A Dedicated Platform Build Literal Staging Areas Throw out your ETL Tool? More Dynamic Reporting Tools Develop reports with…

  • BI Business Requirements

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    Another ETIS presentation from Stockholm in October 2010 This presentation looks at what it takes to develop good business requirements for business intelligence projects. It starts with the proposition that  “70% of all documented requirements are worthless” – Why ? Written but never referred to (Shelf-ware) Out of date before they are built Cover the wrong things Can’t be…

  • BI Governance Models & Strategies

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    An presentation to ETIS from April 2010 in Athens This presentation looks at what makes a successful model for implementing Business Intelligence Governance within an organisation. It builds on the white paper Data Warehouse Governance published in 2007 It starts by asking the following questions Is your BI programme allowed to define organisational structures outside the company programme…

  • The Business Case For Business Intelligence

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    This white paper looks at the business case that should lie behind the decision to build a data warehouse and provide a business intelligence solution. There are three primary drivers for making the investment in a business intelligence solution Measurement and management of the business process Analysis of why things change in the business in…

  • What can IT really deliver for BI and DW ?

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    This presentation to the IRM Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence 2009 conference looks at the why IT faces problems in delivering Business Intelligence to the Business and asks the question “Is the business really ready for BI?” Is BI something that the business really wants? Is the business prepared to pay for Business Intelligence? Is…