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This past Tuesday I attended a presentation by Bill Inmon concerning his new concept: DW2.0™. I already knew a little about Inmon methodologies, at a high level, and-ironically enough-have recently become familiar with his “Corporate Information Factory” (CIF) approach because of my recent Kimball training in Chicago. I’ve never really put a lot of faith into most of Inmon’s methodologies, frankly because they seem to make more sense in the world of theory than they do in application. Kimball works and it works well. I could devote and entire article to the differences between Kimball and Inmon methodologies but that’s out of scope; I’ll maybe tackle that another day.

The scope of this article, however, is the Inmon presentation. Or maybe I should call it a sales pitch. Regardless …read more »

Someone in my Data Warehouse Lifecycle class in Chicago took up a list of e-mail addresses so we could all keep in contact and utilize each other for information. To more easily allow for this I quickly threw together a forum that we could all use, particularly because I found very few, if any, DSS (Decision Support Systems) forums that were worth anything.

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So I’ve been back to CPI for a month now and things are still looking good. Two weeks into my return the ETL guy quit and I inherited the stuff he was working on. This is really a good thing, despite the extra work. I’m very psyched about the ETL tool they purchased and with my DataStage experience I think I’ll be productive much more quickly than if I didn’t have the experience. I’ll be working closely with sales data and then I’ll be working with the derived marketing data after that. I have a lot of experience with the marketing side of things and I’m looking forward to working very closely with them again. The good thing is that although I’m working with the same data as before I left I’m doing something completely different with it. Building this data warehouse is exactly what I wanted to do when …read more »

I don’t watch the news too much; it either depresses me or pisses me off. Local news is boring and the national news, well, I can only hear about so many American soldiers dying in Iraq in one day. Between the suicide bombers, kidnappings, beheadings, and just plain killing in the name of Allah I’ve had my fill of the whole, messy thing. But, every so often, I hear a story that catches my attention, one that makes me smile even. There’s something about

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Things at work are going okay. We had a little shakeup less than two weeks ago where they fired my boss and the CIO. I was afraid it was CPI all over again at first but it looks like they still plan to go ahead with the …read more »