The Book Look: Growing Business Intelligence
Larry Burns wrote the book Agile Data Management, an extremely practical book about how to make agile work without sacrificing…
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Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few…
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …
Data Warehouse Design – Inmon versus Kimball
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
The Book Look: Data Lake Architecture
I consider Bill Inmon a seer. He predicted (and also shaped) the popularity of the data warehouse in the 1990s.…
Questions Being Asked About Data Governance: Best of #RWDG Q&A
Every month since January 2012 I have had the privilege of conducting a monthly Data Governance and Data Stewardship webinar…
Combining Data from Multiple Sources – Join, Integrate, Blend?
Data blending is a newly emerged technique that is used primarily by those who work in the area of big…
Insight … So What?
There is a lot of hype around analytics today, with most of it centered on the word “insight.” It seems that…
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…