Data Warehouse Links

Alan Alda's Interviewing Tips for Uncovering Business Requirements

What can actor Alan Alda, most widely known from the hit TV's "M*A*S*H," teach us about collecting information from brilliant businesspeople at requirements interviews? As it turns out, plenty! by Margy Ross and Ralph Kimball, Intelligent Enterprise

Compliance to Regulations: A Data Warehousing Approach

In today’s current regulatory climate, businesses need a scalable framework to manage the regulatory compliance. A custom-built compliance data warehouse framework may be best suited for organizations with large amounts of operational and transactional data. by Vaibhav Shringarpure, DM Review

Executive Summary: Enterprise Metadata Framework

A "best practices" implementation framework for enterprise metadata. by R. Todd Stephens - Ph. D., TDAN

Get to Smarter IT Services

If IT management ideas are moving toward a business-driven model, what does this mean for critical-but-unglamorous tasks, such as application management? by Lisa Erickson-Harris, Intelligent Enterprise

Improving DW Performance: Survey Finds Companies Are Flying Blind

Say you have spent a lot of time and money to enhance your data warehouse with the latest infrastructure, and now, performance-wise, your data warehouse is superb. But to what degree does this high performance correlate with exceptional business value? by Stephen Swoyer, tdwi.org

Mark Rittman's Oracle Web Log

This month: Some Oracle BI&W Product News, Controlling The Sort Order of a Dimension Using AWM 10.1.0.4, Two New Open-Source BI Projects, and more!

Market Shifts and Data Warehouse Appliances

A discussion about the major changes likely to occur in the data warehousing industry over the coming year, using the concepts of Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, who wrote the books Innovator’s Dilemma and Innovator’s Solution. by Dr. Richard Hackathorn, b-eye-network.com

Over Half of Data Warehouse Projects Doomed

Despite the critical importance of data quality, many companies do not recognize that they have any issues with it. Such lack of consistency and accuracy of data will doom more than 50 percent of data warehouse projects during the next two years … and this is not just an IT problem. by Robert Jaques, ITtoolbox.com

The 12 Reasons Why Data Warehousing Fails

A blog addressing the previous article, “Over Half of Data Warehouse Projects Doomed.” by Donovan McDonough, ITtoolbox Blogs

The Business Intelligence Network

The Business Intelligence Network features industry specific resources and information for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing professionals. Other features include weekly newsletters by Bill Inmon, Claudia Imhoff and other industry professionals.

Unified Business Intelligence in Action: Managing Risk for the Financial Services Market in a World of Uncertainty

Traditional, structured BI systems have hit a ceiling of functionality, but what can take their place? A unified BI architecture that incorporates traditional structured data management and analysis with text analysis tools to reach the information hidden in unstructured content. by Ronen Feldman, Ph.D.DMReview