Data warehouse design is not a short-term investment and it’s important to understand that the process will rarely show results in a limited time frame. By looking toward the future, you’ll be more ...
The warehousing industry faces a significant labor issue, accounting for 50% to 70% of total budgets, as noted by a Bostontec ...
When it comes to designing a data warehouse for your business, the two most commonly discussed methods are the approaches introduced by Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball. Debates on which one is better and ...
I talk to a lot of different businesses about their data, and, without fail, some form of the same question always comes up: “What is the most common reason you see data warehouse projects failing?” ...
If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to leverage ana­lytics focused on a specific topic, look no further. During his BLUEPRINT 4D session, Patrick Wheeler, product management, Oracle Database, ...
Essentially, a data warehouse is an analytic database, usually relational, that is created from two or more data sources, typically to store historical data, which may have a scale of petabytes. Data ...
A data warehouse lies at the foundation of any business intelligence (BI) system. But if this foundation is flawed, the towering BI system cannot possibly be stable. Given BI’s importance as a ...