Dr Barry Devlin is among the foremost authorities on business insight and one of the founders of data warehousing, having published the first architectural paper on the topic in 1988. Today he is a leading consultant and speaker on data warehouse development. Barry...
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Snowflake Guest Blog: Cloud Data Warehousing – It’s Now & It’s Real!
We all know that data warehouses and best practices for them are changing dramatically. The global market for data warehousing is expected to grow to $34.7 billion by 2025, according to a recent report from Allied Market Research. That’s nearly double the $18.6...
Metadata is the DNA that Future-proofs Your Data Infrastructure
If data is the lifeblood of the business world – a constant stream of information that fuels business decisions – then metadata is the DNA. It is ‘data that describes data’, documenting the source of your data, transformations it has been through, dependencies and so...
The magic of Snowflake, and why leading data-driven organizations are smart to take a look
For those of us who’ve been in the IT industry a while, conferences like Oracle Open World or Dreamforce have acquired almost mythical status; huge jamborees celebrating the successes of Oracle and Salesforce, the ecosystems that surround them, and the results they...
Introducing the Data Vault Alliance
Today, at the WorldWide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) event in Stowe, Vermont, I launched the Data Vault Alliance, a new global community which seeks to unite Data Vault experts, vendors and practitioners and share best practices for Data Vault 2.0 with...
The data warehouse – how the ‘what’ has replaced the ‘why’ for IT leaders
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...
WhereScape EMEA Partner Award Winners 2019 Revealed!
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 Data Vault
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...
Locking in a Data Vault
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...