Modern Data Warehousing: Analytics without the Modeling

Aug 29, 2017 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Data warehouses are great for supporting standard reporting and dashboard applications. But they are unwieldy if business users ask questions that weren’t modeled in the data warehouse to begin with. The time, money, and resources required to maintain a data warehouse to support ad hoc queries...

A Guide to Monetizing Data: How to Create Intelligent Applications and Products

Aug 28, 2017 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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During the past five years, business executives have begun to see data as manna from heaven. Their organizations are awash with it. Thanks to the incessant drumbeat of big data evangelists, executives now see this plentiful resource as raw material for new products and services. Despite the...

To Build or Buy BI: That Is the Question! Eckerson Group's Online Assessment

Aug 22, 2017 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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This report provides general advice on whether you should build or buy reporting and analysis functionality to embed in your application.

Three Levels of Models Versus Business

Aug 16, 2017 by Ted Hills in Information Design

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It is traditional to think of data models as existing at three levels of abstraction: conceptual, logical, and physical. 

How to Create a Data Strategy: Part II – Ten Steps to Success

Aug 15, 2017 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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