Tag: Data Warehousing
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Gathering Business Requirements for Data Warehouses
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…
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The top three mistakes I have seen in data warehousing projects
A guest blog by Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright Having been a supplier of technology for many years, I have talked to a lot of prospects and customers and seen a lot of projects. Most projects are reasonably good, some are great, and then some others are disasters. The disasters are probably more prominent than…
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Implementing Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Governance
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
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At last someone we understand …
It is rare with all the background reading and research that I have to do that I read a contemporary book and say “Yes, this guy gets it” – notice that I say contemporary. There are plenty of good books about the day-to-day business intelligence problems that I see which were written over 20 years…
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The project wiki – a cost reduction tool
Some readers will be familiar with TED: Ideas Worth Spreading a series of talks on just about everything worthwhile in Technology, Education and Design. I recently revisited Yochai Benklers talk on the new open-source economics from 2005 where he explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organisation. The principle discussed is one…
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
The deception in our case is the accuracy of the data and the return on investment of the data warehouse solution. Too often projects make compromises in the implementation of a business intelligence solution that create massive cost and user dis-satisfaction downstream that lead to the failure of BI projects: For example: * In the…
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Black Swans and White Elephants
Another ETIS presentation from Istanbul in Octovber 2009 This presentation looks at the Return on Investment in Business Intelligence projects Return on Investment is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. To calculate ROI, the benefit (return) of an investment is…
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Data Warehousing – Change Management In A Challenging Environment
The way in which data warehouse developments and solutions are viewed is changing. The emphasis is less on the technological problems, many of which have been solved, and more on the day-to-day issues of living and working with a data warehouse. These issues include: • Configuration/Change Management • Managing and Improving Data Quality • Engagement…
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Process Neutral Data Modelling
This paper describes in detail the process for creating an enterprise data warehouse physical data model that is less susceptible to change. Change is one of the largest on-going costs in a data warehouse and therefore reducing change reduces the total cost of ownership of the system. This is achieved by removing business process specific…
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