From the Midfield to the Top
We’ve had a magnificent morning with a Super Session with the former CEO of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy, and another…
Landscape: Data Warehousing and Business Analytics
The Terrain The Terrain This landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Not so long ago, IT investment was focused…
Automate Data Remediation to Find Dirty Data Before Your Customers Do
I teach a graduate course on data warehousing at Northeastern University in Boston. Unlike the people I teach at clients’…
Leveraging Customer Data to Drive Business Decisions
Interesting panel with folks from the Venetian, Marriott and Nextag discussing customer intelligence. First they were asked about their use…
Exterior Design, Part II: Frequency
To continue the theme of designing for an ever changing set of requirements, I wanted to talk about the second…
As Data.gov Goes Dark, 50 Startups Prepare to Take its Place
the fiscal year, and we have no reasonable expectation to get more than a couple of millions of dollars .”Days…
Exterior Design
Sometimes the universe just screams an idea at you and all you can do is listen to it. As I…
An informed decision
A friend and fellow information professional is currently responsible for both building a new data warehouse and supporting its predecessor,…
A New Kind Of Data Warehousing Will Emerge in 2011 According To Gartner
An article in eWeek.com summarizes the latest data warehousing report from Gartner entitled “The State of Data Warehousing in 2011.”…
Carl Hiassen, Drama, and Data Governance
Just finished listening to an interview with the great writer Carl Hiassen, a fellow Floridian and chronicler of crazy. (It…
