The Analytics Stack is Consolidating… Now What?
As the technology that underpins data and analytics continues to advance, consolidation is taking place across the traditional analytics stack. It’s a natural evolution in the lifecycle of technology—and in the case...
Death of A Star Schema (Redux): Moving Beyond Inmon and Kimball
Picking the right data model is one of the most important decisions that senior IT leaders can make. Historically, there were two models to choose from: Ralph Kimball’s “bottom-up” approach to mapping...
Keeping Self-Service BI on the Right Side of the Law
All around the world today, government regulators are turning their attention to data privacy and protection. With the arrival of GDPR, CCPA, New York Privacy Act and a growing list of others...
Do You Have an Unhealthy Obsession with the Single Source of the Truth?
Establishing a “single source of truth” for an organization’s data is the holy grail for many data executives and their teams today—and it’s a big mistake. More often than not, this type...
Avoiding Self-Service BI Disasters: 3 Strategies for Senior IT Leaders
Does the thought of moving to self-service business intelligence keep you up at night? You’re not alone.
Senior IT leaders are often stuck between a rock and a hard place when it...