| Steven
Crofts |
Richard
Normann |
William S.
McKinney |
| “The Roadmap To Data Warehousing Success” |
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| This briefing takes you rapidly through the
Institute’s research on the future trends and directions of data warehousing.
Where is this technology segment headed and how can you take advantage
of understanding the successes of today’s earliest adopters? This
high level briefing also provides a quick summary of the most recent research
into the very popular “Roles and Responsibilities of Data Warehousing Professionals”
study which identified the jobs required to implement a data warehouse
and the responsibilities the holder of each job must complete. It
also discusses the key elements of “politics” in data warehousing project
planning - often the most critical aspect of success in a data warehousing
implementation.
Steven Crofts is the president and chairman of the Data Warehousing Institute. |
In today’s business world old boundaries have
lost their validity. Companies become “virtual”. Value is created in real
time in global constellations. Customers must now be seen as a source of
business rather than as a sink for products and services, but old customer
relationships are being invaded. The winners are the “Prime Movers” who
set the new rules and draw the new boundaries. “Prime Movers” must be well
informed. But they must, above all, be intelligent. When information is
sifted through concepts it generates patterns and creates knowledge which
enables Prime Movership.
Dr. Normann is chairman and founder of SMG, the management company of the SIFO Group. He is the author of several internationally best-selling management books, including “Service Management”. He works as a consultant all over Europe, is a guest professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and lives in France. |
During the 1990’s companies have increasingly
been building data warehouses to store their organizations’ strategic information.
Utilization of this data for management decision making has not been optimized
because the data contains little or no structure. Activity-Based
Information systems impose a structure to the data that allows Business
Intelligence software to navigate the data and discover trends relating
to costs, processes, customers and profitability. This presentation
will review the relationship between Activity-Based Information Systems
and traditional data warehousing solutions.
Mr. McKinney is Vice President, Engineering at ABC Technologies Inc. He has lead the development of and integrated Business Intelligence system used to navigate activity-based information. |