Here is a framework and an approach centered on a different approach to defining requirements that works. Most importantly, a successful analytics project is a partnership. The business users should want to help IT create an effective and robust solution and IT...
Integers still rule. There is a little debate or controversy regarding the right approach for assigning surrogate keys, assuming, of course you’re not mired in the debate whether or not to create data models in the first place. I guess if you aren’t creating data...
Over the years I have seen a number of clients try to buy something to solve their analytics challenges. When I worked for Cognos, people bought Cognos thinking it would fix things, sometimes they threw Cognos out thinking it was the problem. Companies have purchased...
The following is an overview of the platform architecture used to facilitate the process of ingesting data into the Snowflake platform and transforming it into data models to facilitate a wide variety of reporting and analytics. I recently developed this with a...
There is a better way. Many organizations, of all sizes, struggle to use analytics to improve their operations because of information “silos”. Silos occur when the applications that run different parts of your operations can’t communicate with each other. For example,...
Everyone is talking about analytics. And machine learning and AI. Everyone’s talking, but only some are doing, and few are doing well. You’d like to take a look and find out if analytics can make a difference, if you have the skills you need and if you can afford to...
