21 Wed Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data, Consider this, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing
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Big Data, business intelligence, Core Statistics, DW 3.0, enterprise data warehousing, information management, information supply framework, statistics
Big Data, together with Cloud computing and the Internet of Things, are topics that are very much to the fore in contemporary trends in Information Management. Continue reading
17 Sat Jan 2015
25 Thu Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Consider this, Data Warehousing
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Martyn Richard Jones
I have worked in data architecture and management for three decades, I have become a recognised expert in my field, and as a result I have become almost oblivious to the fads, fancies and fashions that pass through IT. However, being an expert in a field also means that from time to time we are oblivious to the difficulties that some people may have when trying to understand issues and concepts that we simply take for granted – because, one simply knows. This is the case with data.
20 Sat Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Data governance, Data Warehousing
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Martyn Richard Jones
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Big Data is dead! Long live Information Management. Continue reading
19 Fri Dec 2014
Posted in Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, EDW
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde
For well over two decades one of the most talked about benefits of Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) has been that it gives us a single source of business truth. Continue reading
30 Sun Nov 2014
Posted in Consider this, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing
Old advice is still good advice, if it is truly good advice.
Martyn Richard Jones
It’s an older piece (from the nineties), but a lot of it is still relevant and pertinent.
So, here is a brief run-down on how to avoid crashing and burning Data Warehousing.
Understand that a Data Warehouse should only contain subject oriented, integrated, non-volatile and time-variant information to support strategic and tactical requirements of management – Keeping the purpose of the Data Warehouse highly focused will eliminate the dilution of a Data Warehouse solutions effectiveness. If what Bill Inmon said in this respect almost invariably results in successful DW projects – and that’s not speculation but proven fact – then I don’t see any rational reason at the moment to change our views on this. Continue reading
30 Sun Nov 2014
Posted in Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Memory lane
Martyn Richard Jones
I wrote this piece (actually, it is part of a much larger document on Data Warehousing and Telcos) many years ago. But I thought it might give someone a chuckle, or even prompt some new ideas. So here you have it: Continue reading
30 Sun Nov 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, Consider this, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing
©1997 Adobe Systems Incorporated
Dreamers
Martyn Richard Jones
More than 80% of advertising is ignored. More than 50% of Data Warehouse projects fail in one way or another. The information explosion has been accompanied by a massive increase in the ranks of the willfully stupid. Continue reading
14 Tue Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Assets, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Management, Value
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Big Data, Business, business intelligence, Data Marts, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, information management, knowledge, knowledge management, Risk Management
In the dim and distant past most organisations struggled along with what they euphemistically referred to as Information Systems.
They were Information Systems with no overall design, no elements of management and no architecture.
Information Systems were built to show how the company had been performing in the immediate past, and that was it. Continue reading
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