by Shane Gibson | Aug 16, 2016 | Business Intelligence, Data Integration
Gartner has released their Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Data Integration for 2016 and my opinion is that Gartner is behind the times and have missed the boat with this one. A bold statement but here is why I am saying this. Have a look at the MQ: As I mentioned in my...
by Shane Gibson | May 6, 2016 | Data Integration, Open Data, Trifacta
One of the pieces of data we use regularly is dates. Every data repository needs the ability to view the data by day, month, year, etc. There is often also a need to view data based on holidays. Funnily enough, you would think that a list of data containing the NZ...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 24, 2016 | Data Integration
As you may have worked out if you have been reading our blogs for a while, we are big fans of the Data Vault approach as a way of automating the Integration layer of a Data Warehouse (DW). In 2014, we sent a couple of our DW experts to Sydney to attend Hans...
by Shane Gibson | Feb 6, 2016 | Business Intelligence, Data Integration
Gartner have released their Magic Quadrant for 2016 and OMG the BI market has substantially changed according to Gartner. In fact, for those of us who love more emotive sentences, you could say there has been a blood bath! The first thing to notice is that...
by Shane Gibson | Feb 5, 2016 | AgileBI, Data Integration
I’m slowly reading my way through Ralph Hughes latest Agile Data Warehousing book “Agile Data Warehousing for the Enterprise: A Guide for Solution Architects and Project Leaders” Hyper Normalisation vs Hyper Generalisation One of the areas Ralph...
by Shane Gibson | Nov 4, 2015 | Data Integration, Trifacta
Anybody that has worked anywhere near me has heard me say many times: “I can’t code”. Well that’s not really true; I can code, just badly. When I do code, it’s more like I hack. So, it’s either a case of hacking somebody...
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