Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: ETIS

  • BI Vendors & Thought Leaders on Twitter

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    Our aggregated twitter feed https://datamgmt.com/twitter has all the latest tweets from thought leaders, vendors and some leading BI organisations. You can also subscribe to the list directly on twitter Don’t forget whilst you are here to have a look at our White Papers, Presentations and Blog The current list includes (links to their individual twitter accounts):…

  • 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…

  • Enterprise Metadata Management Strategies

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    An ETIS presentation from Istanbul in March 2011 This presentation looks at what metadata is and when it is created, it then identifies some strategies for managing it. Metadatais defined as data providing information about one or more aspects of the data, such as: Means of creation of the data Purpose of the data Time…

  • 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 Written but never referred to (Shelf-ware) Out of date before they are built Cover the wrong things Can’t be…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…

  • Black Swans and White Elephants

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    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…

  • Data Quality: Common Problems & Checks

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    An ETIS presentation from Zagreb in April 2009 Data Quality problems are a SOURCE SYSTEM issue and an ETL issue They just manifest themselves in the data warehouse Prevention is better than cure Fixing the source system or the ETL is ALWAYS cheaper and more effective than cleaning the data in the ETL or in the…

  • Process Neutral Data Modelling Concepts

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    This is the first presentation to ETIS held in Brussels in November 2008 It takes a deep dive look at the problems with conventional data modelling for the data warehousing and looks at an alternative approach known as Process Neutral Data Modelling. It is a natural follow on from the previous UK Oracle User Group presentation…