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Date archive for January, 2009

  • Purchasing Data Mart – cutting costs with analysis (Part 1)

    In these difficult economic times, cutting costs isn’t just optimization, it’s survival. You can’t reduce what you can’t quantify so it’s critical to analyze the accounts payable (AP), or purchasing data to identify the areas where cost savings are possible. This is one of the most useful financial data marts because spending is often something […]

    1/27/09 • (1)

  • A Cost comparision between Data Marts and a Data Warehouse

    I’ve noticed a fair bit of search traffic focusing on cost questions, particularly which is cheaper; a series of data marts or a single enterprise data warehouse.  I think it’s a bit like the question of lease vs buy.  Starting off building a single departmental data mart will represent a much smaller cash flow out. […]

    1/18/09 • (1)

  • Business Intelligence Strategy in the Recession

    It’s difficult not to notice that the global economy has thrown a recession and we’ve all been invited.   So until we have some money to spend, we’ll stop looking at our data, right? Although its true that in today’s economy, a lot of the multi-million dollar business intelligence projects are going to be cancelled […]

    1/15/09 • (0)

  • Personal Data Marts: cost effective, powerful Analysis

    Huge, expensive data warehouse projects often either deliver a huge compromise in terms of functionality, or are impossibly complex and expensive. A bunch of them fail outright. Why do so many people turn to Excel for their analysis needs? Because with excel they are in control.  With Excel it IS personal. Massive, expensive data warehouses […]

    1/09/09 • (0)