#14: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Credit where credit is…
No Data Warehouse Required: BI Reporting Extends Its Reach
It’s rare these days to find clients who haven’t already decided on a standard BI platform. Most of the new…
“Why Business Intelligence projects fail”
IntroductionIn this blog, I have generally tried to focus on success factors for Business Intelligence programmes. I suppose this reflects…
Entry Point: Change is a Constant
How many times have you received bad data from an upstream ‘stable’ database environment for no reason what so ever?1…2…10…13…76…Never…?How’s…
Who owns Master Data in your company?
I've had to respond to this question, inside and outside of the company, in a number of different conversations over…
People, Process and Politics – We All Hate Data Silos, So Why do They Happen?
Why are data silos so prevalent when we really ought to know better? We know that it’s risky to have…
The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment Model
This is the first detailed post in a series I am doing focusing on the issues that exist today with…
The Problem with the Relational Database
The relational database has been the core mechanism for structured data storage and retrieval for the past 30 years. My…
Cloud Expo Europe keynote: Building Great Companies on the Cloud
Yesterday I spoke at the first Cloud Computing Expo Europe and I enjoyed the conference very much. Here is my…
Using multiple business intelligence tools in an implementation – Part I
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI™) 2.0IntroductionThis post follows on from a question that was asked on the LinkedIn.com Data Warehousing…
