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Online Columns

Why Do Capital Market Organizations Underachieve their Planned ROI?

Gary Cokins

As the capital market firms influence their acquired companies to adopt PM methodologies, their desired ROI targets will be achieved.

The Song Remains the Same - Data Shadows Systems Continue to be Pervasive for Reporting and Analytics: BI and DW Trends, 8 for ’08

Rick Sherman

BI may not be pervasive, but spreadsheets are.

The BI Ensemble, Part 1: Weak Ties, Diversification and the Wisdom of Crowds

Steve Miller

Weak ties thus facilitate the exchange of information across disparate networks of dense and strong relationships.

Ask the Experts

Question: When is it better to have normalized data to create data marts and when is it better to have dimensional data?

Chuck Kelley, Joe Oates, Larissa Moss's Answer:

Hoping not be bombarded by emails, I still don’t get the difference between Kimball’s and Inmon’s approach.

Question: Can data warehouses be designed to cover all possible queries on dimensions that we throw at it without providing a list of reports to an IT department?

Sid Adelman, Joe Oates, Chuck Kelley's Answer:

First of all, some reports can be predicted. The reports users get today that will be satisfied by the data warehouse will still need to be run, perhaps somewhat differently and delivered differently, but they will still be needed and can be predicted.

Question: How do you measure/calculate information quality quotient for a particular data set?

Danette McGilvray's Answer:

The good news is that information quality can be measured - via various data quality dimensions. A data quality dimension is a way to measure and manage data and information quality.

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