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…
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The convention over configuration discussion when designing a data warehouse often leads to fanatical discussions by technical people over the ‘best’ approach to do things. Convention can be used to define the standard way to design…
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Monday … Our house is full of optimism today – we’ve been out and spent an absolute fortune on a pedigree pup. We were really impressed by the salesman at the shop. He offered something to…
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In my consultancy assignments, I usually work in large organisations that have outsourced IT departments and very formal processes for everything. One aspect of this is version control. In such an organisation every document contains a…
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Wandering around the web I found a presentation by Soren Burkhart of Hawaii Business Consulting, LLC given at the Rails Conference in Portland, Oregon (May 2007) that describes a classic agile approach to developing a Business Intelligence application…
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The agile manifesto and it’s underlying principles set out four key values for developing software solutions: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan If an organisation is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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