Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new creatures back then,…
Business Intelligence News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Business Intelligence education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Data Mining Use Cases
“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine,” says Peter Sondergaard, former Global Head…
Data’s Gender Gap: A Data Equity Reading List
Over the course of this column, I’ve cited a wide variety of sources regarding gender, technology, data, and more. As…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless BI and the Metrics Layer
Occasionally, I pick up on trends in my peripheral vision. These are trends that aren’t in the center of my…
Are Data Lakehouses Secure and the Best of Both Worlds?
As we enter a new cloud-first era, advancements in technology have helped companies capture and capitalize on data as much…
Through the Looking Glass: Suspending Judgement on Synthetic Data
Synthetic Data is, according to Gartner and other industry oracles, “hot, hot, hot.” In fact, according to Gartner, “60 percent…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 1)
Our reactions to the data we receive can cause a great deal of suffering. For example, there was a hospital…
The Road to Secure Self-Service Analytics
The road to creating business value through a well-oiled data management strategy can be long and challenging. A successful data…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Edge Computing Challenges and Strategies
This column focuses on challenges of edge computing and explore strategy considerations for implementing and utilizing edge computing in the…
Inmon Architecture Versus Kimball Architecture – Revisited
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…