Comments on: The Agile Road to a Successful Data Warehouse http://cetanaallc.com/index.php/2007/04/the-agile-road-to-a-successful-data-warehouse/ Mon, 21 May 2012 03:12:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Todd Samost http://cetanaallc.com/index.php/2007/04/the-agile-road-to-a-successful-data-warehouse/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Todd Samost Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:22:40 +0000 http://intelligentbusiness.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/the-agile-road-to-a-successful-data-warehouse/#comment-167 Some neat stuff there in the blogs. Food for thought on a future article: - The need for common Business Rules and Corporate-Standard Metadata to help maintain those rules - how this avoids what seems to be a common problem. In Kronos and other companies I've seen, different users of data will request reports to be written or filtered in different ways. This produces what I once called the Vending Machine scenario of reporting, where anyone with a budget or requirement can push a few buttons and get THEIR version of a report. As a result, numbers are different for the same supposed criteria, and reconciliations and confusion are the major end-product, not competent decisions. Nice reads, though, and good real-world concepts/advice. I'll get around to posting a reply, once I can think of something grand to say, instead of something silly like that "Robbins" character :-) Thanks, T. Some neat stuff there in the blogs.

Food for thought on a future article:

- The need for common Business Rules and Corporate-Standard Metadata to help maintain those rules - how this avoids what seems to be a common problem.

In Kronos and other companies I’ve seen, different users of data will request reports to be written or filtered in different ways. This produces what I once called the Vending Machine scenario of reporting, where anyone with a budget or requirement can push a few buttons and get THEIR version of a report.

As a result, numbers are different for the same supposed criteria, and reconciliations and confusion are the major end-product, not competent decisions.

Nice reads, though, and good real-world concepts/advice. I’ll get around to posting a reply, once I can think of something grand to say, instead of something silly like that “Robbins” character :-)
Thanks,

T.

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