Business Analysis for Business Intelligence

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Mastering Data Management

Note that I do not use the term “master data management.” Not that I don’t like the concept but I am afraid it will go the same route as the corporate data warehouse in the pre-Kimball era: a nice idea but extremely hard to realize in everyday business practice. Again the tension between providing the business with rapid response to their demands and maintaining a well-architected master data management may push the choice to an imperfect but useful environment instead of the perfect solution, which is never going to come out of the planning room. The true value of Ralph Kimball’s work to the development of working corporate data warehouses, emerging from hands-on data marts, is rapidly delivering business value, ...