Do we need to store the data all together in same places?
Do we need to use the same data model ?
Do we need to put data into cloud?
Posted by Dylan Wan on September 13, 2017
Do we need to store the data all together in same places?
Do we need to use the same data model ?
Do we need to put data into cloud?
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Posted by Dylan Wan on April 7, 2017
This is an old topic but I learned more and come up more perspectives over time.
Posted in BI, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, EDW, Enrichment, Master Data Management | Tagged: Data Lake, Data Warehouse | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Dylan Wan on August 14, 2007
Why is the customer dimension so important?
What are special characteristics of the customer dimension?
Posted in BI, BI Work, Business Intelligence, CDH, CDI, Customer Data Integration, Customer Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Marketing Intelligence, Master Data Management, MDM, Sales Intelligence, Service Intelligence, UCM | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Dylan Wan on August 8, 2007
Good information comes from good data. The quality of your data warehouse relies on a good master data management (MDM) solution. Here are some of important concepts in any MDM application. I explain more of them in my MDM blog – http://groups.google.com/group/MDM-us.
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Posted by Dylan Wan on June 12, 2007
Microsoft recently purchased a Master Data Management vendor Stratature. After I looked at their web site, I guess that Stratature’s offerings seems falling into the BI related MDM , like what Oracle – Hyperion’s product. Their webinar is co-presented with Joy Mundy from the Kimbal Group.
Stratature provides the “Dimension Manager” as the solution for Customer Data Integration. Based on the name of the product, we can also know their solution is BI centric.
Here are several requirements I guessed they tried to target: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dylan Wan on March 14, 2007
I think that it is important to understand why a single view of customer important. Understanding this provides you a good perspective on why you should implement a MDM, or a CDI, solution.
I believe that a data warehouse deployment will be much easier and simplier if we can assume a MDM is in place. However it requires some design efforts to leverage MDM in data warehouse data model and ETL design.
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Posted by Dylan Wan on March 14, 2007
Master Data Management is a combination of business processes, software application, and technologies which helps you to manage your master data, such as “Customer”, “Supplier”, “Employee”, and “Product”.
There are four key components of a MDM solution… Read the rest of this entry »
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