Year: 2012
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…
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We’re not the only ones with opinions – so maybe you would like to share yours with us as a guest blogger. We would really appreciate a one-off blog post from you as our guest blogger If…
Read MoreInstalling R and RStudio on Redhat/CentOS Linux
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…
Read MoreBusiness Intelligence – BPR by the back door?
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…
Read MoreOur Software
Over the years we have produced several utilities and open source projects. List list provides some information about their status GROUT – ETL tool including DAP & SQLUnload written in Korn Shell, C & PL/SQL –…
Read MoreAn Introduction To Social Network Data
An internal training presentation from May 2012 Social Networks such as Facebook are everywhere. They gather a wide range of data about each and everyone of us who joins their ranks. This presentation looks at what…
Read MoreBuilding a Data Warehouse of Call Data Records (CDR): Solution Considerations
Source: Database Trends and Applications (http://www.dbta.com/) Reprint of a magazine article from May 2012 With many organisations having established data warehouse solutions there comes a point where the solution needs to be extended in an unusual…
Read MoreImplementing 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…
Read MoreUsing the right data model in a data mart
An internal training presentation from March 2012 that looks at how the choice of technology affects the choice of data modelling strategy It start with a review of the current state of the art: The concept…
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