Tag Archives: data warehouse

Optimize Data Warehouses with Data Usage Monitoring and Data Warehouse Archiving

Data warehouses are applications– so why not manage them like one? In fact, data grows at a much faster rate in data warehouses, since they integrate date from multiple applications and cater to many different groups of users who need different types of analysis. Data warehouses also keep historical data for a long time, so [...]

Reflecting On Data Quality In 2011

With just a few days remaining in what has been an eventful year, I thought I’d take some time to reflect on the world of data quality as I’ve observed it over the past twelve months.  While the idea of data quality improvement in general didn’t change much, the way that companies are viewing and [...]

Four Canonical Techniques That Really Work (Or Not)

Several years ago I had the fortunate opportunity to participate in a post-mortem study of a $100 million dollar project failure. No one likes to be associated with a project failure, but in this case it was fortunate since the size of the write-off was large enough that it forced the team to take a [...]

Building A Better Data Warehouse

The devil, as they say, is in the detail. Your organization might have invested years of effort and millions of dollars in an enterprise data warehouse, but unless the data in it is accurate and free of contradiction, it can lead to misinformed business decisions and wasted IT resources. We’re seeing an increasing number of [...]

Rethink Data Virtualization – Get All the Data You Need And Trust NOW!

Businesses have seen great success in using virtualization to gain greater efficiencies from their hardware and network resources. Now, the concept of virtualization has been extended to the data layer. The bottom line is about providing a logical abstraction of all underlying data, so that it appears as one data source to consuming applications. However, [...]