Death of the Data Warehouse
I build data warehouses. I understand why they’re important, I make a living from them. I also see that traditional, relational data warehouses are on the way out. Their demise is coming from a few technological …
The Business Intelligence Sandbox aka The Data Lake
UPDATE: 2020 January 20 – When I originally wrote this post, the term data lake wasn’t in vogue. Well, times have changed! Nowadays, the term sandbox has largely been replaced with data lake. The concept …
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You Can Only Do Two Things With BI
I get a kick out of how vendors tout Business Intelligence. It’s usually something like, “Get more out of your data” OR “Don’t you want to be data driven?” OR “All the really cool companies …
Signs you need BI: People are overusing MS Excel and Access
Are you wondering if your organization is at the point where it needs to improve its reporting capabilities and invest in a business intelligence system? This note is the first in an occasional series of …
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What Does Business Intelligence Mean?
I remember watching a really good webinar one time entitled Ten Changes to Maximize the Impact of Your BI Strategy by Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel. I found it to be well worth the hour spent …
Business Intelligence Radar: Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Britain
What is Business Intelligence? It’s the set of tools, abilities, and data required to create a picture of the world and how your organization operates in that world. In building your business intelligence capabilities, you …
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Star Schema: Data Mart? Yes! Data Warehouse? No.
The Two Roles of a Data Warehouse Most people think of data warehouses as databases that solve reporting problems. However, it’s more useful to think of them as addressing two sets of problems: 1) Reporting, …