Joyce Norris-Montanari, CBIP-CDMP, is president of DBTech Solutions, Inc. Joyce advises clients on all aspects of architectural integration, business intelligence and data management. Joyce advises clients about technology, including tools like ETL, profiling, database, quality and metadata. Joyce speaks frequently at data warehouse conferences and is a contributor to several trade publications. She co-authored Data Warehousing and E-Business (Wiley & Sons) with William H. Inmon and others. Joyce has managed and implemented data integrations, data warehouses and operational data stores in industries like education, pharmaceutical, restaurants, telecommunications, government, health care, financial, oil and gas, insurance, research and development and retail. She can be reached at jmontanari@earthlink.net.
Joyce Norris-Montanari explains why data conversion is where data quality counts.
When should you convert history in a data warehouse? Joyce Norris-Montanari explains.
Joyce Norris-Montanari explains why your data warehouse may have more records than your master data.
I cannot tell you how many times I have had customers that do not have a specific vision for their data. What I mean by this is that there is no data strategy.
To allow file uploads into your business intelligence environment or not to allow file uploads – what is your decision? I have a tendency to look at this issue like this: Someone on the business side needs this data – and probably needs to looking at existing data another way. For example,
I have encountered quite a few companies that are now anticipating the move of as many of their source systems as possible into SAP. I think this is probably a good decision for quite a few of these organizations. However, in doing so, we must keep or create data management
I am asked quite frequently whether a company needs master data. Actually, I believe everyone has master data, it just depends on whether your company wants to manage their master data or not.
OK, finding a state called Texas in the country of Taiwan, in the state table, blew my mind away! I actually took the time to look up everything about Taiwan to make sure there was nothing (and I mean nothing) called Texas in Taiwan. So how did this get in
Joyce Norris-Montanari explores Hadoop for the enterprise.
Can you create an environment where data is at your fingertips? Joyce Norris-Montanari explores the topic.
