Data warehouse design is not a short-term investment and it’s important to understand that the process will rarely show results in a limited time frame. By looking toward the future, you’ll be more ...

Healthcare organizations have enterprise-wide data sets of which data governance can be time-consuming and labor intensive. Yet, healthcare needs to move towards the 21st century in terms of data ...

I talk to a lot of different businesses about their data, and, without fail, some form of the same question always comes up: “What is the most common reason you see data warehouse projects failing?” ...

When it comes to designing a data warehouse for your business, the two most commonly discussed methods are the approaches introduced by Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball. Debates on which one is better and ...

About three months ago, most of the supermarket chains in the Boston area dispensed with clip-out discount coupons. Now, advertising circulars carry only announcements of the week's specials and ...

Federal agencies are faced with several daunting challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, that are causing them to take a second look at their IT investments and data strategies. Among them, ...

Essentially, a data warehouse is an analytic database, usually relational, that is created from two or more data sources, typically to store historical data, which may have a scale of petabytes. Data ...

A business analyst, or BA, is a member of a project management team who helps a business resolve issues with its processes to move the business toward its strategic goals. A BA works as a bridge ...

A data warehouse lies at the foundation of any business intelligence (BI) system. But if this foundation is flawed, the towering BI system cannot possibly be stable. Given BI’s importance as a ...