GOOD STRATEGY REBELLION

Category: Data Mart

  • Hadoop’s Revolutionary Data Warehouse

    Hadoop’s Revolutionary Data Warehouse

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Baile Átha Cliath

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    2017 Martyn Richard Jones

    It’s Easter in Baile Átha Cliath, and thoughts naturally turn to purple-shrouded, sombre-shadowed and mystical aspects of bereavement, resurrection and bunnies.

    Which may go some way to explain why people come up to me in the street, and apropos of nothing, ask me about what is the biggest reason why Data Warehousing projects fail.

    Try as I might, I cannot convince people that the reasons I give have any validity. It’s as if the mundaneness of the stupidity involved in these failures is just too frivolous, banal and immature as to be believable or even worth listening to.

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  • Here’s a thought… A Date with Codd

    Here’s a thought… A Date with Codd

    SBMartyn Richard Jones

    Carmarthen 18th March 2017

    This is a second collection of snippets; ideas and occurrences that are aimed to provoke critical thought and engagement.

    As I stated in the first of these articles, “Most people who know me, at least in a professional capacity, will know that I am no unconditional supporter of Data Warehousing, never mind the more plague ridden swamps inhabited by Big Data, Data Lakes, Travelling IoT, Dodgy Data Science, Instant Data Scientists (just add water) and New-Age Machine Learning. So, many will not be surprised by this heterogeneous post-modern pastiche of ideas, impressions and bagatelles.”

    I have extended the original scope of these posts to include any thought on themes of strategy, data, technology, process, business and humanity. (more…)

  • Contextual Aptitude: The Next Great Thing… Again

    Contextual Aptitude: The Next Great Thing… Again

    IMGContextual Aptitude: The Next Great Thing… Again

    Martyn Jones

    Birmingham 15th March 2017

    What is Contextual Aptitude (also known as End User Intelligence)?

    For starters, it’s a rubbish term for an extra-crucial business-centric concept of gravity-defying, cosmos-rallying, mega-mega importance.

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  • Data Mart in a Box: The Next Great Thing – Placeholder only

    Data Mart in a Box: The Next Great Thing – Placeholder only

    AppleStoreData Mart in a Box: The Next Great Thing

    Please note that this is a placeholder for a piece that is currently being reviewed by an architectural and IP team. Don’t want to give away too many secrets.

    Martyn Jones

    Carmarthenshire 16th March 2017

    What is a Data Mart in a Box?

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