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June 30, 2007
Business demand for information is insatiable, driven by performance management, competitive pressures, industry regulations and the exchange of data with suppliers, partners and customers. Likewise, data […]
April 21, 2007
I’m a gadget-lover. I firmly believe that my electronic toys (PDA, cell phone, smart phone, cellular modem, etc.) will make me more productive. Best Buy, Circuit […]
November 13, 2006
Is there a happy medium between business users who want to see their data in Excel and data warehouse managers who want the enterprise using “real” […]
October 12, 2006
Data warehousing (DW) appliances are being touted as potential market changing technology by technology and financial analysts alike. Vendors say these bundles of hardware and software […]
September 11, 2006
Compliance, competitive business requirements and increasing data volumes are driving companies to rethink data integration strategies. My first podcast with SearchDataManagement.com gives a comprehensive overview of […]
August 7, 2006
New technologies aren’t a shortcut for data integration. Whatever application integration tool you use, you still need to integrate data the old-fashioned way — by talking […]
July 24, 2006
Vendor packages may offer the allure of off-the-shelf solutions that take almost no work and instantly provide the business with the answers to all their questions. […]
July 14, 2006
A couple of IT managers recently approached me with a thorny issue. The key business sponsor for their data warehousing effort asked them if they should […]
July 6, 2006
The 2005 worldwide relational database (RDBMS) market was approximately $14 billion in revenue (IDC estimates $14.6 billion while Gartner, Inc believes it was $13.8 billion) and […]
June 29, 2006
You think so, do you? If you don’t work with the business users, how are you going to know their real needs? How will you understand […]
June 15, 2006
You can have a great architectural solution, but if it doesn’t meet the business users’ exact needs, they won’t give up their trusty stovepipes. You can […]
June 11, 2006
For those in the Boston-area, or anyone else who feels like catching a Red Sox game after a day of data warehouse and business intelligence training, […]
June 2, 2006
How trustworthy is the data that you provide? Not very, if it has quality problems. Data quality is one of the biggest roadblocks to trusting corporate […]
June 1, 2006
Been there, done that. That’s how we ended up with multiple data warehouses, data marts, and ERP, CPM and SCM solutions that need to be reconciled. […]
May 25, 2006
I hear large corporations admit they spent millions of dollars on data integration projects such as data warehouses, data marts, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and corporate […]
November 12, 2005
As we discussed in my previous column big data warehouses are back in style. In a 2004 TDWI study, 60 percent of respondents indicated that they […]
November 12, 2005
Just like boot-cut jeans and fuel-efficient cars, big data warehouses are coming back in style. Take a trip down memory lane, when IBM introduced the corporate […]
October 12, 2005
Our high-tech culture suffers from a not-invented-here syndrome. If we weren’t the masterminds behind a project, we think it can’t possibly be a good one. When […]
September 29, 2005
While data warehousing technologies and methodologies, we might overlook the importance of business intelligence training. Taking a narrow-minded approach to your data warehousing strategy can be […]
August 12, 2005
It’s been 20 years since the term “data warehousing” was first coined. Since then, it has evolved into a mainstream activity for Fortune 1000 companies, with […]
May 12, 2005
Religious wars. We have them in IT all the time. Everyone debates architecture. The “high priests” of our trade guard it. The approaches espoused by Ralph […]
March 12, 2005
If you’re trying to architect or build a cost-effective, productive business intelligence (BI) program, it’s important that you thoroughly understand the data franchising component of the […]
May 13, 2004
In a previous article, I discussed the importance of adhering to product and technology standards to increase both the ROI of your IT investments and the value […]
April 13, 2004
Too many companies have implemented the “software du jour” – frequently switching to different hardware; operating systems; databases; applications; programming languages; extract, transform and load (ETL) […]
March 13, 2004
It was a wake-up call. When I first moved from a software firm to the information technology (IT) department of a Fortune 100 company, I was […]
August 12, 1997
Originally published by DMBS Magazine (Intelligent Enterprise/Information Week) A tremendous amount of resources are being used in enterprises to build Data warehouse (DW) and data marts. […]
