Data Warehouse Teams Adapt to Be Data Driven
When companies embark on a journey of becoming data-driven, usually, this goes hand in and with using new technologies and…
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O*NET Call to Action – Data Warehouse Specialist Role
The O*NET Data Collection Program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, is seeking the input of expert…
Ask the Data Governance Coach: Data Governance over a Data Lake?
There is currently a lot of excitement about data lakes and the possibilities that they offer, particularly about the analytics…
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…
Data Culture Through Continuous Improvement
Industry leading organizations recognize and manage data as a strategic asset. By ensuring high data quality, they are able to…
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…
Data Warehousing in the 21st Century
To be a successful relative company in the 21st century, analytics is no longer an option, but a requirement. Yet,…
Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Data Warehousing is Still Alive
Over the past several years many industry experts have declared the data warehouse to be dead. As early as 2011…