Advanced Metadata Architecture
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Corporations are demanding more and more functionality from all of their IT (information technology) systems,…
Data Architecture News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Architecture education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
How To Do a Data Warehouse Assessment (And Why)
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Why Assessments and an Assessment Methodology are Needed – What an Assessment is In the…
The Impact of Technology
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Publisher’s note: This paper was extracted from the book: “Building Corporate Portals with XML”, by…
Critical Success Factors for Data Warehouse Engineering Part 1
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Articles in this series – Part 1, Part 2 Introduction A data warehouse is more…
Extraction, Transformation, and Load Issues and Approaches
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Introduction Many of the Business Intelligence tools look way cool. They provide graphs, moving targets,…
Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality
Author: Larry P. English Wiley, 1999 ISBN: 0-471-25383-9 Anyone in the information system business knows the importance of quality. Organizations…
Enterprise Architecture: What and Why?
Enterprise Architecture (EA) has recently become a "hot" topic. Articles and seminars here and elsewhere have discussed Enterprise Architecture (EA).
Change Management
The only constant in American enterprises is change. There are external changes in politics, climate, laws, markets, competition, and customer…
Enterprise Information Architecture
The primary objective of an "architected" environment is to deliver higher quality, integrated systems and information at a significantly reduced…
Components of a Data Warehouse
Overall Architecture The data warehouse architecture is based on a relational database management system server that functions as the central…