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Drill Down to Ask Why, Part 1
Boiled down to its essence, the real purpose of a data warehouse is to be the perfect platform for decision-making. Most data warehouse (DW) and...
DM Review, 06/01/08 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Essential Steps for the Integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse, Part 2
In the first half of this article, published in the April issue, we saw that drilling across was the defining act of the integrated enterprise data...
DM Review, 05/01/08 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Essential Steps for the Integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse, Part 1
In this two-part article, I propose a specific architecture for building an integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW). This architecture directly...
DM Review, 04/01/08 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Dividing the World
In my November, December and January columns and the data quality article published in the October issue of DM Review, I laid a solid foundation...
DM Review, 03/01/08 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Myth Busters
Dimensional modeling is an old discipline, dating from the late 1970s when ACNielsen introduced its In*Fact syndicated data reporting service,...
DM Review, 02/01/08 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Data Wrangling
In the first two parts of this series, we got ready to start the design of an enterprise data warehouse. First we carefully took stock of all the...
DM Review, 01/01/08 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Set Your Boundaries
Last month, I urged you to pause briefly before charging forward on your ambitious data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) project. You were...
DM Review, 12/01/07 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Resist the Urge to Start Coding
The most important first step in designing a data warehouse (DW)/business intelligence (BI) system, paradoxically, is to stop. Step back for a...
DM Review, 11/01/07 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
An Architecture for Data Quality
In this article, I propose a comprehensive architecture for capturing data quality events as well as measuring and ultimately controlling data...
DM Review, 10/01/07 by Ralph Kimball · More from publication -
Economic profit and performance measurement in banking - includes related article on performance incentives
Successful bank operation requires managers to weigh complex trade-offs between growth, return, and risk. In recent years banks increasingly have...
New England Economic Review, 07/01/98 by Ralph C. Kimball · More from publication
