In the past years I’ve worked as a hands-on architect on the design and implementation of various data migration, data warehouse and business intelligence systems in various industries like Insurance, Retail, Food & Bev’s, Pharma & Investment Banking. Out of all nothing quite stands out like the complexity of building a Credit Risk Data Warehouse & Reporting system for the compliance with the Basel Regulatory requirements. Continue reading How to implement a Credit Risk Data Warehouse – Part 1
Category Archives: SQL Azure
Data integrity & Business re-engineering
Usually when a company enrolls into a data clean-up exercise the focus is mainly on the in-depth analysis and profiling of the data.
Sometimes it’s worthwhile to step back from the in-depth look at data cleaning to get some perspective.
You should start asking questions like “Why is data dirty in the first place?”, “Are any of the clean-up exercise that we are currently doing reversible ?” or “Does this really need to become an ongoing process ?” Continue reading Data integrity & Business re-engineering
Why do we end up with Dirty Data [platform agnostic] ?
One of the biggest themes in operational databases and data warehouses alike that is universally recognized but far too often ignored is the cleanliness of the data.
From hundreds of meetings with data processing and IS staff, I have identified three consistent themes.
Although these three themes stand out dramatically as the biggest problems in corporate data access, the same data processing and IS staffs that identify them are usually attacking only the first two of them. Continue reading Why do we end up with Dirty Data [platform agnostic] ?