Our 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 –…
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An 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…
Read MoreStorage Characteristics of Call Data Records in Column Store Databases
A presentation from an internal training session about the storage characteristics of call data records in Column Store Databases such as InfoBright, Sybase IQ and Actian Vectorwise It describes: What a Call Data Record is What…
Read MoreAgile Business Intelligence
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…
Read MoreEnterprise Metadata Management Strategies
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…
Read MoreBI Business Requirements
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” –…
Read MoreStruggling with Data Management ?
Re-print of a magazine article from August 2010 Those responsible for data management in your organisation are probably struggling. If you can find an individual or group responsible for everything then they have a lot on…
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