Last week we were fortunate to have Warren Thornthwaite and Margy Ross from the Kimball Group deliver an excellent Data Warehouse Lifecycle In Depth training course in Canberra. Seizing the opportunity to gain insight from an industry thought leader in data warehousing, Altis hosted an executive briefing where Warren shared some of the lessons he’d [...]
A colleague and I recently attended Sharepoint Saturday in Canberra. A day-long conference of all things MS Sharepoint. The sessions were broad ranging, appealing to business focussed and highly technical alike. Most business intelligence tools in the market today are accessible via a browser-based interface or portal. With the increasing use of collaboration tools, integration [...]
At times implementing a data migration can feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Data migration is often considered as an afterthought in a program of change and frequently suffers time, budget and scope creep. Very rarely does the legacy data map exactly or neatly to the new structures. So [...]
In an earlier blog post Managing stakeholders in a DWBI context I wrote about some of the challenges of engaging stakeholders, in particular when dealing with data warehouse sceptics. One of the steps planned for this enterprise Data Warehouse Business Intelligence (DWBI) strategy and roadmap was a facilitated prioritisation workshop to get agreement from all [...]
Every data warehouse generally has at least one time dimension, and often may have multiple instances of a time dimension under the guise of role playing dimensions. Changes to data are tracked over time, either to enable reporting at a historical point in time, or to track changes to slowly changing dimensions. This is a [...]
I’ve recently been assisting a client with an enterprise DWBI strategy and roadmap to optimise and consolidate their DWBI investment across the organisation and experienced some interesting challenges in managing a very diverse group of stakeholders. Our stakeholders represented a broad cross section of the organisation with differing levels of experience in DW-BI, some with [...]
Selecting the right Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) toolset for your organisation can be a time consuming and expensive process without the right framework in place. With so many different tools and vendors available in the market, how do you identify which one will best fit your needs? We’ve recently worked with 2 [...]
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