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January 21, 2020
From Talend: Rick Sherman is an author, educator, and a managing partner of Athena IT Solutions. His book, Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to Analytics, was published by Morgan […]
April 12, 2016
The 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. Rick Sherman will be conducing […]
April 6, 2012
Lauren Gibbons Paul interviewed Howard Dresner and me for an article on training, which was published in SearchManufacturing ERP.com this week: Training is the final step […]
April 14, 2010
You’re breathing a sigh of relief because the hard work of your business intelligence (BI) project appears to be over. You began by carefully evaluating […]
May 29, 2009
Why are data silos so prevalent when we really ought to know better? We know that it’s risky to have inconsistent data. We strive for the […]
May 8, 2009
For those of us in high tech, it’s easy to fall into the trap of concentrating too hard on the products, technology and architectural aspects of […]
April 3, 2009
The publishing of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves is eagerly awaited by vendors in many IT categories, particularly those who scope in the “top” quadrant […]
February 3, 2009
Just like Goldilocks and the Three Bears we are looking at what is too hot, too cold and just right. So far we have discussed our […]
January 7, 2009
“It’s the economy, stupid” will be the dominant theme for 2009. A recession, consumer and corporate anxiety, and constrained IT spending will challenge rational thought. Although […]
December 18, 2008
I’ve written letters to Santa before requesting gifts that data management and data warehousing managers would appreciate. With the current economic climate, many business intelligence (BI) […]
December 15, 2008
In previous years SearchDataManagement.com has posted my articles with letters to Santa. Until the new one is published later this week, here's a reminder of what […]
October 16, 2008
In my article “The Accidental Architecture,” I discussed how enterprises have evolved their data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) projects without a planned architecture. This […]
October 14, 2008
When you plan to build a house, you start with what you want and can afford. You decide on architectural style, size and number of rooms. […]
September 23, 2008
There's still room in our public data warehouse training courses for October and November. These are taught in Waltham, MA. If you don't live in the […]
February 29, 2008
Below are our public courses for March. If you don’t live in the Boston area or don’t want to get on a plane, we also offer […]
January 16, 2008
We’ve just posted our winter 2008 schedule of data warehousing and business intelligence courses. If you don’t live in the Boston area or don’t want to […]
October 30, 2007
Spend your 2007 training budget before it’s too late. This December we’re offering two business intelligence & data warehousing courses. Fundamentals of Business Intelligence and Data […]
September 11, 2007
We've just posted our fall schedule of our business intelligence and data warehouse training. If you don't live in the Boston area or don't want to […]
March 13, 2007
We just posted dates for our spring data warehousing & business intelligence courses: Fundamentals of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing – April 23-24 Business Intelligence and […]
December 8, 2006
In my previous post I discussed the Gartner Research "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2006" and that Gartner has decided to supplant its “Magic Quadrant […]
October 13, 2006
We’ve added some new dates for our Boston-area data warehousing and business intelligence training for the rest of 2006. See the following link for dates and […]
September 15, 2006
We’ve posted some new dates for our Boston-area courses: Fundamentals of Business Intelligence and Data WarehousingOct 30 – Oct 31, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: Project […]
September 29, 2005
While data warehousing technologies and methodologies have evolved over the years, ideologies, in many cases, have not. Taking a narrow-minded approach to your data warehousing strategy […]