In order to prepare for the cooking gauntlet that often occurs with the end of year holiday season, I decided to purchase a new rotisserie oven. The…
I presented a webinar a few weeks back that challenged the popular opinion that the only way to be successful with data science was to hire an…
I’ve been intrigued with all of the attention that the world of Data Science has received. It seems that every popular business magazine has published several articles…
Not long ago, I was asked to review a client’s program initiative that was focused on constructing a new customer repository that would establish a single version…
One of the challenges in delivering successful data-centric projects (e.g. analytics, BI, or reporting) is realizing that the definition of project success differs from traditional IT application…
Companies spend a small fortune continually investing and reinvesting in making their business analysts self-sufficient with the latest and greatest analytical tools. Most companies have multiple project…
IT organizations have spent enormous sums of money over the past 10-15 years attacking productivity. They’ve acquiring data integration tools, implemented improved development methodologies, and even reengineered…
I always find it interesting when people pile onto the company’s latest and most popular project or initiative. People love to gravitate to whatever is new and…
As I wrote in last week’s blog post, a data warehouse appliance simplifies platform and system resource administration. It doesn’t simplify the traditional time-intensive efforts of managing…
At the recent Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas I was approached at least a half a dozen times by people wondering what MDM vendor to choose.…
