Chatting to prospective customers at a recent event, it struck me that, for buyers and sellers of data warehouse solutions, the conversation between the two has shifted irrevocably over the last few years. With an increasingly buyer-driven purchase process, it’s...
At our inaugural Partner Summit, in Lisbon last night, we at WhereScape recognized the partners that uphold our ethos across the EMEA region and have contributed most to our commercial success. Closing deals is the end goal of every successful company of course, but...
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...
Sometimes a major technological advance is accelerated by another complementary innovation. It seems data automation and a Cloud-native database that separates storage from compute go together just like peas and carrots. Two huge steps forward in data management and...
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...