As the discussion of Federated Data Warehouses has been prevelant lately for me I thought I would share a nice document/survey finding. I participated in this survey and enjoyed reading the results. Here is a quick capture of some of the findings… Primary Drivers for
I was reminded today based upon a flippant comment from someone in a meeting today about the arrogance of the Dot Com days and some approaches to Consulting.I remember a founder of a dot com consulting firm saying: "They don’t know their business. I know it better tha
In a meeting yesterday, I had a great conversation on the value of opening Innovation up to everyone and making it part of your culture. But we largely talked about examples where organizations opened problems up to competition externally to look for real innovation.I thought th
In discussing the applicability of Extract, Load and Transform with a client, I realized that this is a great Top-Down approach to quickly getting the data into the datawarehouse so that it can now be leveraged by the end-user. So take this example … Step 1 – ELt
In working to finalize some thoughts on SOA registry and security and where this should exist I was re-reading a blog by Dan Foody at Actional who I really like based on his approach to talking about these things and found this lovely blog on process and thought it was fitting based o
Roadmap – a plan or guide for something (Encarta) As part of good EDW governace and stewardship, we should be helping the business drive (Top-Down) a roadmap for the EDW that drives business value. By aligning the company’s goals and objectives to drive the evolution
In the past we have talked about the role of governance, and in Monday’s post we talked about SOA – Top-Down vs Bottom-Up. It had me thinking about how to manage things like: Enterprise Platforms (BEA, Websphere, and the like) Data Warehouses (Federated, Enterprise a
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