[My guest post on the GreenPages blog, April 24, 2015]

Here is a progression that most businesses experience in the data arena.

• You go from no data or bad data to “better” data.
• You start having reports regularly show up in your mailbox.
• The reports go from being just tables to showing trend lines.
• You evolve to dashboards that bring together data from many sources.
• You fork into sets of operational and strategic reports and dashboards, KPIs driven, with drill down.

By this point, you have Operational Data Stores (ODSs), data warehouses….   Read more…