This Week’s Food for Thought:

The Evolution of the Data Warehouse Data Model   

When Ralph Kimball wrote “The Data Warehouse Toolkit” (published 1996) it defined Dimensional Modelling in a way that immediately demanded attention by data warehouse practitioners worldwide. The book and the techniques it described were not new and were common to the approach we had used for the better part of a decade.  However, what the book did do that was a foundational way to describe the approach in a consistent and considered with a terminology that could be used by everyone.

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New Blog Post: Linking Information Systems to Business Performance.

The lack of understanding of the relationship between process and platform is a key contributor to the extreme spending on information management systems and technology in organizations today.  Many managers are quick to adopt a technology to solve their organizational needs without clearly understanding the underlying business process beforehand.  It is often seen that these systems are installed and cannot accomodate the current workflow.  For example, they can create new processes, but not faciliate existing ones. 

What advice can you offer on the alignment of information systems and process to achieve business performance?

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