Barry Devlin

Living in a vault, especially of the underground variety, doesn’t sound too pleasant to me. However, a vault can also mean a roof in the form of an arch, as in a cathedral. To that point, living in a Data Vault demands some over-arching thought, uniting business...

So, I’m playing a little with words here. I’m certainly not advocating locking anybody or anything in a Data Vault. I want to share how you can lock in success as you design and deliver your new Data Vault. I assume you have your business people fully on board as...

The term Data Vault evokes an image of a safe and secure place to store your most important, core data assets. A lot of engineering goes into its design and delivery to ensure it does that job. However, there also is another image—a large, steel door—that comes to...

In the final article of this series, I address the topic of maintaining the data warehouse that has been designed, built, and deployed over the previous three articles. But, maintenance is too small a word for what is entailed! In more traditional IT projects, when a...

Having designed and built your data warehouse, I imagine that you’d like to deliver it successfully to the business and run it smoothly on a daily basis. That’s the topic of today’s article. As digitalization continues apace across all industries, the role and value...

Over this series of four posts, I explore the keys to a successful data warehouse. Last time, I started with design—a reasonable place to begin! The topic of this post is build, with operation and maintenance to follow. Even with a beautiful design model in your...

Over this series of four posts, I explore the keys to a successful data warehouse, starting with data warehouse design. The topics for future posts are: build, operation, and maintenance. Designing a Data Warehouse In the design of a data warehouse and,...

Over this series of four posts, I explore the keys to a successful data warehouse, starting with data warehouse design. The topics for future posts are: build, operation, and maintenance. Designing a Data Warehouse In the design of a data warehouse and,...