Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Big Data keeps getting bigger. We’re generating so much information these days that we’re running out of sustainable places to put it and have begun tinkering with the idea of storing it in space. Yes, outer space. With this much information on our hands, it’s no wonder the […]
Data Models That Build Themselves
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Self-service Business Intelligence (BI) is about bridging the knowledge gap that has historically separated business professionals from their data. It’s about doing away with intimate knowledge of information systems as a prerequisite for finding out last quarter’s growth margin. And when it comes to replacing SQL statements with […]
Endowment Dollars for Data: An Ad Hoc Reporting Case Study
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. The vast majority of knowledge workers utilizing Business Intelligence via their hub SaaS application, regardless of vertical, will likely never build their own reports from scratch. According to Eckerson Group’s “A Reference Architecture for Self-Service Analytics” (2016), 90% of knowledge workers in an organization use BI casually with […]
Implementing Bitemporal Modeling for the Best Value
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Bitemporal Modeling is an extremely useful tool for documenting historical data. It allows you to recreate databases as they existed at any point in the past and see whether the records were correct — based on what you know to be true now. This information can not only […]
Bitemporal Data Modeling: How to Learn from History
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Have you ever called about a real estate listing only to learn that the house has been taken off the market? Or had to pick up mail that should have been routed to your new home? Sometimes our records don’t reflect reality, and bitemporality exists to keep track […]