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Is Data Warehousing Truly Iterative and Agile?

10 Thu Oct 2024

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Data warehousing eschews iterative development?

Martyn Jones, Santander, 10th October 2024

Narrator: The development method for data warehousing, whether following Inmon or Kimball, has always been iterative with apparent aspects of self-service, agility, rapid development and end-user development.  

Dud: We always built data warehouses iteratively, didn’t we, Pete?

Pete: Yes, that’s right, Dud. Iterations are delivered in increments. Small enough to be quickly deliverable. Large enough to be significant to the business.

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Rethinking Data Warehousing and Team Collaboration

04 Fri Oct 2024

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Data Warehousing means monolithic and siloed teams?

“Great things in business are never done by one person;

they’re done by a team of people.”

Steve Jobs

Martyn Richard Jones, Tours, 4th October 2024

Narrator: There is a widespread belief amongst the know-it-all crowd that data warehousing and business intelligence necessarily mean monolithic and siloed teams. And that the only way of moving away from such team organisations is to kill off data warehousing. But is this really a rational, coherent, and cohesive approach, as some people say it is? Or is it destructive stupidity born out of conceit, ignorance, and arrogance?

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Understanding Exhaust Data in Data Warehousing

02 Wed Oct 2024

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The data warehouse is the place to copy exhaust data to

Martyn Jones, Bilbao, 2nd October 2024

Narrator: Not all data we have is related to strictly business domains such as products, organisation structure and corporate real estate. A lot of data we collect is simply about monitoring all aspects of IT, applications, networking, security and governance. To name just a few.

Dud: What’s all this data in my exhaust? Is my data back-end going well, or do I have a mechanical data governance issue? All this OLTP exhaust data is so tedious and tiring.

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Orientation! Domain or Subject?

26 Thu Sep 2024

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Domain orientation or subject orientation?

Martyn Jones, New Jersey

Narrator: Here, in this piece, we wander down Differential Avenue to look at what people consider domain and subject orientation. This story is about the good, the embarrassingly lousy hyperbole and then the ugliest provocative nonsense.

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The Data Dialogues (Nov 2024) – Talking Book

21 Sat Sep 2024

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Talking Book

Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, Spain.

Remember

To set the scene, get to the point, and give this thing the well-deserved impulse, impetus, and notoriety, I will begin like Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood—that is, at the beginning.

And for folk who struggle with big words? That’s the start.

So, to get things rolling modestly, I will explain where I am coming from with this demanding, triumphant and considered endeavour of mirth, myth and mysticism.

And, if that fails, we move on. Right? Right!

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7 New Big Data Roles for 2015

27 Sat Dec 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

This article is in English.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

To Begin at the Beginning

I have been involved in an in-depth study of the changing face of IT. This includes data architecture and data management. I spent all afternoon, as a matter of fact, examining the challenges that the profession faces.

In particular, I have focused on emerging and evolving roles and responsibilities. I have examined their significance and synergies. Additionally, I considered their collaborative potential in a future marked by high-speed, volatile, and unpredictable conditions.

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