When should you convert history in a data warehouse? Joyce Norris-Montanari explains.
.@philsimon chimes in on some oft-overlooked differences.
If your enterprise is working with Hadoop, MongoDB or other nontraditional databases, then you need to evaluate your data strategy. A data strategy must adapt to current data trends based on business requirements. So am I still the clean-up woman? The answer is YES! I still work on the quality of the data.
.@philsimon channels his inner Queen Latifa.
Today, I was in a conversation about using Hadoop (a big data platform) for master data management (MDM). I still find it amazing when we have the discussion of what systems feed another system. Many of our friends have spent years creating MDM for customer, product, etc. with success. I'm a
Single view of customer. It's a noble goal, not unlike the search for the Holy Grail – fraught with peril as you progress down the path of your data journey. If you're a hotelier, it can improve your customer's experience by providing the information from the casinos and the spa at check-in to better meet your
In the 1988 film Beetlejuice, the title character, hilariously portrayed by Michael Keaton, is a bio exorcist (a ghost capable of scaring the living) hired by a recently deceased couple in an attempt to scare off the new owners of their house. Beetlejuice is summoned by saying his name three times. (Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.) Nowadays
There’s little doubt that basic, static pie charts and even infographics can tell a story. But, as I write in my new book, Visual Organizations understand that contemporary dataviz tools are just plain better. They allow for a high degree of interactivity, motion and animation. So, what does this mean?
For most organisations, issue management is seen as an administrative chore. Scattered across the organisation, data workers diligently resolve issues often via their own local issue management process. With silos of data comes silos of maintenance, and this is a real shame because the data these systems possess is a
When I walk into a customer’s office and they tell me that IT is the business’ consultant – BUT they don’t implement the data warehouse (or any other project) in a fashion that makes sense to the business user, I wonder if it's the methodology that's holding back the progress. Methodology is
