Cloudy thinking in the cloud (1)
8/23/10 •
Maybe its just me, but the hype about "the cloud" seems to just keep growing. I think that not since the concept of vaporware was created has the moisture content been so high in information technology circles, the relative humdity is making my brain all foggy. It seems like everything just somehow gets fixed by [...]
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Datamartist V1.3.0 Value Distribution data profiling (0)
7/26/10 •
This video gives a quick (under two minute) look at the Datamartist data profiler's ability to explore the distribution of numeric values in a data set by counting the number of values that fall into a series of equal size buckets. It highlights the datamartists calculation, visualization, selection and drill down features using a simple [...]
How the general ledger can become a data warehouse (2)
7/20/10 •
Many companies today rely on the general ledger as key part of their management reporting, well beyond the obvious financial information. This has often been shaped by how companies first adopted information technology. In some firms, their management reporting systems reflect the fact that as information technology began to be used extensively by business, often [...]
V1.3.0 Public beta released (0)
7/13/10 •
Come and get it while its still warm! The next release of Datamartist, a data profiling and data transformation tool (think ETL and data profiler rolled into one) is now available in BETA as a public trial download. The currently released version 1.2.6 is of course also still available, but for those who don't mind [...]
When the right tool is not a standard tool. (1)
7/12/10 •
Phil Simon (@philsimon) tweeted a link to an article in the Harvard business review that talks about the dangers of being "overly tool standardized" within an organisation that I thought was very interesting. Now, of course, standards are needed, and for a broad range of tools its counter productive (and horrifically expensive) to let everyone [...]
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