Tag: Governance

  • Data Warehouse Project Management

    Data warehouse projects pose a specific set of challenges for the project manager. Whilst most IT projects are a development to support a well defined pattern of work a data warehouse is, by design, there to support users asking ad hoc questions of the data available to the business. It is also a project that…

  • Ready for Change?

    A presentation given to the 3rd Citia BTC Conference in Kiev. This presentation looks at the problems of creating a long-term sustainable data warehousing environment in the context of the change that will affect them: Data warehouses are constantly in a state of flux The cost of build is small by comparison with the operational…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…