The Book Look: The Elephant in the Fridge
Guided Steps to Data Vault Success through Building Business-Centered Models John Giles wrote The Nimble Elephant a number of years…
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Applying Top-down, Big-Picture Models to Data Vault Part 2
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…
Applying Top-Down, Big-Picture Models to a Data Vault Part 1
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Data Summary
Welcome to the wrap-up column in our series on applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tales and Tips…
How to Do Top-Down, Big-Picture Modeling – Part 2
This paper forms the second part of a big-picture top-down data modeling trilogy. The first paper on why to take…
Why Do Top-Down Big-Picture Modeling? Part 2
The preceding article in this series looks at some real-world case studies that suggest that starting with an enterprise-wide, top-down…
Why Do Top-Down Big-Picture Modeling? Part 1
Models are only ever a means to an end. Sometimes car designs are modeled in clay –you can’t drive the…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Data Warehousing
Welcome to the fifth article in a series about applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tips and Tricks…
Universal Data Vault: Case Study in Combining “Universal” Data Model Patterns with Data Vault Architecture – Part 1
There are plenty of reasons you might want to use proven “universal” data model patterns to improve the outcome of…