The applicability of the Cloud as a platform for provisioning applications and consuming services has attracted much attention over the years. Many businesses are now actively leveraging the Cloud or planning to do so in…
It seems that not a day goes by without another commentator noting the impact of digital transformation. We are told that with access to unlimited data, infinite connections between organisations, people and ‘things’, the scope…
There are many critical dimensions to how businesses operate in response to the competitive pressures that they face today. This has fundamentally changed from where we were 10-15 years ago. Let’s briefly explore this: renewing…
It’s hard for me to believe but September of last year marked the 20th anniversary of my introduction to the world of Business Intelligence. It was the first day of my new job, working on the technical…
I have the privilege of working with many different businesses and each comes with its unique challenges: the datasets that need to be managed, the geographical spread of users, the need for regular and/or irregular…
In the first part of this Modern Data Platform blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. The blog series…
The Modern Data Platform, Challenge 3, Part 1… In the first part of this blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the…
If you have a BPC implementation on your BW Netweaver system then you have a whole other ecosystem to worry about, and you will need to work closely with the BPC team and the basis…
In the first part of this blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. I concluded by outlining the 5…
“If you don’t know your history” It seems to be a very long time since we put to bed the arguments over the need for data warehouses. I remember the first project I worked on,…
