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Senthil On Data: Operational BI - Part 1
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Saturday, April 18, 2009. Operational BI - Part 1. The genesis of BI has always been the need to seek for the BIBLE of decision making. But BI over a decade has transformed itself from a night watchman to more of a 24/7 call-center representative. It has become real-time. What made this change? Why was the mutation to real-time necessary? What are the challenges in data integration? Real-time monitoring of 'shrinkage...
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Senthil On Data: Metadata Management - Scratching your own itch
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Metadata Management - Scratching your own itch. Meta-data management is always a complex problem, because its about capturing "data about data". I don't think DW as an industry leader is anywhere near on making sure organizations are cleansed of bad data. We still have bad data and if it is about capturing finer details about this "bad data", its even more bad. Ask your existing team to start ...
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Senthil On Data: Release Early Release Often
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Thursday, July 10, 2008. Release Early Release Often. The experiment turned out to be a success. This strategy would work for most of your implementations, unless it’s a maintenance project with less than a week’s duration of deliverable. Release Early Release Often. Worth following me by email? View my complete profile. Release Early Release Often. Picture Window template. Powered by Blogger.
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Senthil On Data: April 2008
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Sunday, April 27, 2008. Why should I make my MDM SoA enabled? A Car Sales Manager is capturing the details of a customer, who visited his showroom. After jotting down the client's address details, the Manager wants to check out if the address is a valid one. How can he achieve it? When to make MDM SoA enabled. Sunday, April 20, 2008. MDM - SoA Marriage. My current project proved to be a big failure on this front....
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Senthil On Data: Operational BI - Part 2
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Sunday, July 05, 2009. Operational BI - Part 2. Having set the need for an Operational BI in my previous post, I will sketch out the architecture of an Operational BI solution. The four important blocks to be considered while designing an O-BI system are. Transformation and Load Module. Data Retention Module discusses about the parameters required for estimating the size of the sliding data storage windows.
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Senthil On Data: Which MDM approach is right for you?
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Which MDM approach is right for you? MDM, in the past 5 years, has come a long way in its maturity model. Most of the MDM implementations fall under 2 different kinds of approaches. Operational MDM (the tougher among the two). Enables synchronization of master entities and their attributes between the transaction processing systems. Why does one need such an MDM? I am Rajesh from SiliconIndi...
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Senthil On Data: Can BI Strategy ever become real?
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Saturday, December 19, 2009. Can BI Strategy ever become real? When a super BI consultant recommends a whole stack of To-Do items in the information curve, how real is his recommendation? How real is the BI Strategy? 30%, 50% or 70%. Have you as a customer asked your vendor about it? Ask it. The typical response would be - "Depends". There is. Answer is "Stop doing it. Get Real.". Let me know what you think.
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Senthil On Data: July 2008
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Thursday, July 10, 2008. Release Early Release Often. The experiment turned out to be a success. This strategy would work for most of your implementations, unless it’s a maintenance project with less than a week’s duration of deliverable. Release Early Release Often. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Worth following me by email? View my complete profile. Release Early Release Often.
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Senthil On Data: As an architect...
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Lessons learnt working with data models, datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and MDM. Tuesday, June 21, 2011. I have been playing the role of a DW Architect for a large financial services organization over the past 6 months. When I reflect back on my duties and responsibilities, one aspect came out very strong that gets missed out in the job description. Leaves his Unique Selling Proposition trace in the project". Do you think Emperor Shah Jahan would have given a big job description to his archite ct,.
