Category: data architecture

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

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    Back at you! Here is the third fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. (more…)

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 2

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 2

    Image3Why buy when you can get it for free?

    Back at you! Here is the second fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. (more…)

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 1

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 1

    Image2Why buy when you can get it for free?

    Here is the first fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. (more…)

  • Testing the Data Warehouse

    Testing the Data Warehouse

    Image1Martyn Richard Jones

    Dusseldorf, August 2006

    Data Warehousing provides possibly one of the best opportunities for IT organizations to deliver a valuable business solution in order to address a set of business needs; requirements that go well beyond the area of day to day operational support, and traditional applications (web enabled or not), and when Data Warehousing is done the right way, and for the right reasons, its payback to all of its stakeholders can be positively significant. (more…)

  • How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

    How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

    This is the story of how the amazing Hadoop ecosphere revolutionised IT. If you enjoy it, then consider joining The Big Data Contrarians.

    Before the advent of Hadoop and its ecosphere, IT was a desperate wasteland of failed opportunities, archaic technology and broken promises.

    In the dark Cambrian days of bits, mercury delay lines and ferrite cores, we knew nothing about digital. The age of big iron did little to change matters, and vendors made enormous profits selling systems that nobody could use and even fewer people could understand. (more…)

  • The Digital Document Lifecycle

    The Digital Document Lifecycle

    The Digital Document Lifecycle

    MARTYN RICHARD JONES

    To begin at the beginning

    This is a story of the life of a digital document. Its purpose is to explain the process of analysing, designing, building, testing and delivering content rich business artefacts in today’s digital age.

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  • Stuff a great data architect should know

    Stuff a great data architect should know

    Stuff a really great Data Architect should know

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