Data warehouse—into the future The death of the data warehouse has been proclaimed many times and with increasing frequency in this current decade as the data lake has become ever …
Thirty Years of Data Warehousing – Part 2
Diving into the data lake The data warehouse is an architecture of its era. When it was designed and until the early 2000s, the main source by far of its …
Thirty Years of Data Warehousing – Part 1
In 1988, a cell phone weighed approximately 2 pounds, cost nearly $4,000, offered 30 minutes of talk time—and no other function—having taken some 10 hours to charge. The Motorola DynaTAC …
Exploring The Bond Between Business Analysis & UX At The Business Analysis Conference Europe 2019
I recently presented a workshop at the Business Analysis Conference Europe 2019 by the industry group International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) where an illustrator created this image summarizing the …
Developing a Digital Strategy – What are the Pitfalls?
Where are you with digitization in your organisation?A surprisingly large number underestimate the increasing momentum of digitization, the behavioural changes and technology driving it, and, perhaps most of all, the scale …
Data Security Policies for Modern Enterprises
I. Data in Modern Day Enterprises Enterprises today rely on data to execute daily operations, conduct efficiency analyses, gauge market trends, and obtain insights to gain a competitive advantage. As …
Data Governance & Data Quality – An Architecture for Success
I started working in data management in the dim and distant days of the mid 1990s when I was part of a small team in the Business Strategy function of …
MDM – Don’t Miss Out Just Because It’s “Out”
In Gartner’s latest “Hype Cycle for Data Management”, MDM is positioned in “the trough of disillusionment” phase, the phase that follows the initial positive hype and the following “peak of …
Let’s Get Clear About Algorithmic Bias
What would it be like to use an unbiased algorithm?An insurance scoring application could assign coverage and costs quite randomly, having no bias towards good drivers with clean records. Or …
Three Career Tips for Data Professionals
Are you as excited as I am to be a data professional? Are you one of the next generation of data professionals? Are you exploring the possibility of having data …
Modern Master Data Management for a True Customer 360
To establish what modern data management is, in the context of a “true” customer 360, first you need to define what a “true” customer 360 is and is not. That’s …
Data is NOT the new Oil .. The “Data Asset” is Really Different
I recently presented a seminar at an event called “Data, the vital organisation enabler” Information is at the Heart of ALL of the Business during which I raised the question, “Is …
Automation – The Missing Link In Your Analytics & BI Environment
How does automation fit in the landscape of BI and Analytics environments of today? Which tasks – if any – can be automated and at what purpose? A short introduction …
Defining Innovation
At a software company where I worked years ago our CEO called his product leads to a meeting. We sat at a long conference table, with hot drinks and ample …