Tag Archives: ODSs

Expanding IT Roles For Business Growth

[My post in Information Week, Network Computing, April 24, 2015]

The business expects more from IT than back-end support. Today’s IT teams are expected to help drive business. Here’s how to do it. Read more…

From Data Collection and Analysis to Business Action

[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…