A picture is worth 1,000 words. This simple truth is behind the success of various visual modeling tools that help business owners and IT experts reach a common understanding of needs. Last week, ...

It has been widely documented - data is growing at astronomical rates. The amount of data your organization has is less important than how the data is being used. Is data growth hindering your ...

The data warehouse layer is a vitally important part of this book. Here, we introduce a data warehouse key word: multidimensional. You need to become familiar with the concepts and terminology used ...

Now that data warehousing has become ubiquitous in the corporate world, "clean slate" designs of entirely new decision support systems are becoming somewhat rare. Instead, designs and roadmaps are ...

A data warehouse is a central repository of corporate data derived from operational systems and external data sources. The main function of a data warehouse is to support strategic business decisions ...

A data warehouse is a repository of data from an organization's operational systems and other sources that supports analytics applications to help drive business decision-making. Data warehousing is a ...

Data modeling refers to the architecture that allows data analysis to use data in decision-making processes. A combined approach is needed to maximize data insights. While the terms data analysis and ...

The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...