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We do BI…faster

December 4, 2009

When asked, I say that I’ve been working on BI projects both accidentally and on purpose since 1993.  The first Business Intelligence books were published in 1991 (Inmon) and 1996 (Kimball). TDWI, The Data Warehouse Institute, wasn’t started until 1995.  So really, the Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing practices didn’t really start to become players until the mid-90’s.  I consider all work that I did prior to 1998 to be “accidental BI”.  Looking back, if I had understood dimensional modeling in 1994 I would have actually finished my Activity Based Costing project…but I digress.

There is a “new player” in the field of DW and his name is Dan Lindstedt.  Dan’s view of DW is called The Data Vault.  Endorsed by Bill Inmon (which speaks volumes), his method is a hybrid approach to the ODS and is “a hybrid approach encompassing the best of breed between 3rd normal form (3NF) and star schema. The design is flexible, scalable, consistent and adaptable to the needs of the enterprise. It is a data model that is architected specifically to meet the needs of today’s enterprise data warehouses.”  Today I sat down with my good friend Jon Shirey.  Jon and I first worked together in 1993.  He is the true Computer Science scholar that takes a disciplined and well thought out approach to data warehousing.  He is by no means a cowboy and is always the #1 guy that I go to when I run into a tough question that needs an answer.  Jon turned me on to The Data Vault a few years ago when he first attended training.

I was truly impressed with the architecture of The Data Vault.  To me, it seems to allow for Real Time Warehousing and improves the auditability of data. When coupled with tools like Balanced Insight Consensus® rapid BI really becomes a reality.  My wheels are spinning…I need to keep processing…I’m so excited… stay tuned for updates….

Written by Jodie Heflin · Filed Under Business Intelligence 

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3 Responses to “We do BI…faster”

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