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Silly Season! Data Warehousing is Hadoop is Big Data? – Unplugged for 2026

12 Sun Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

2026 Remaster

Let’s get this baby off the ground

This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.

It was in response to a piece by Bill Inmon titled “Big Data or Data Warehouse?” Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.

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Understanding Data Warehousing Misconceptions – Remaster 2026

08 Wed Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

2026 Remaster

The problem with Data Warehousing is that at a superficially high level, it is very easy to explain, and it’s quite impressive that this superficially high level is all that a lot of people need in order to do data warehousing their own way.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Summary – На Бо́га наде́йся, а сам не плоша́й

07 Tue Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

I wrote a piece titled “Mugged in Data Hell.”

INTRO

It told the story of a CIO who was hoodwinked, cajoled, bullied, bribed and patronised into doing the wrong things, continuously.

As my mate Bill said, “It packs big punches, and doesn’t hold back with the shit-kicking truth”.

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Oh, no! Not again! – Business as usual in Data Warehousing

04 Sat Oct 2014

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Written by Martyn Richard Jones

Remastered for 2026

USING MY OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

’m in a board room, addressing the assembled bunch of socially challenged IT management and hangers-on.

I explain, in simple language, how they can and should implement Enterprise Data Warehousing iteratively and agilely, and why they should do so rather than other approaches. I also explain how to do Business Intelligence, again, both iteratively and agilely.

They, the assembled suits, wring their hands and say, “We can’t do it any differently now, we have to deliver everything we promised by September, or we are screwed”.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 4 – Remaster 2026

04 Sat Oct 2014

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By Martyn Richard Jones

Continued from Part 3, which can be found here -> Part 3

“The following week, the full high-powered delegation from The Taffia Connection and BogartSys flies in. It was as if an army had come to do battle with us. Uniformly slick, sullen and tacky. iPhone; laptop; knock-off Marks and Spark’s; check patterns; butt ugly ties; ‘plastique’ shoes; mismatching socks; ‘business’ rucksacks; all weather hoodies; and, worst of all, off-the-peg smirks just begging to be slapped”.

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Essential Principles for Effective Data Warehousing

03 Fri Oct 2014

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Written by Martyn Richard Jones

These are my principles for successful Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. If you don’t like them, I have others. Musings on being led by the nose by experienced practitioners of charlatanry, deception and obfuscation.

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On your way to DW success? We’ll put a stop to that! – Remaster 2026

01 Wed Oct 2014

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One of the most soul-destroying moments in the life of a data warehouse professional is when a key decision maker (usually backed by other key decision makers) decides to radically alter course, and “in a dance as old as time”, snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

This can happen in various ways, but the most gut-wrenching of all is this…

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Understanding Climate Change Through Big Data Insights – Remaster 2026

30 Tue Sep 2014

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You may well have seen all the climate change events around the world. 23rd September saw the biggest ever Climate Change awareness march the world has produced to date. Al Gore was there, Ban Ki Moon was there, Leonardo DiCaprio was there… even Prince Chuck was there.

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Improving IT-Business Communication for Data Success – Remaster 2026

27 Sat Sep 2014

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In a city centre office block, somewhere in Scotland, the conversation between the IT Business Manager (Bill) and the Information Management Manager (Richie) is in full swing,, Bob is irate because his successfully delivered data mart has been derided as unusable rubbish by the business people it was meant to serve.

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