David Haertzen – May 2019
The uses of data and analytics to produce effective outcomes are the focus of the Infogoal Blog. The blog will extend the book, The Analytical Puzzle: Profitable Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics, as well as our body of data and analytics work including: white papers, articles, courseware, presentations websites and software products.
The planned data and analytics topics will include:
◾Big Data Architecture – “The Data Lake”
◾Predictive Analytics
◾Data Mining Methodology
◾Customer Modeling
◾Data Warehousing and Data Marts
◾Conceptual and Logical Data Modeling
◾Data Modeling for Data Warehousing
◾Metadata Fundamentals
The blog will serve members of the data and analytic community who want to: choose frameworks, approaches, products and services that help them to succeed; be recognized as knowledgeable experts in the field; avoid expensive mistakes; and save time by following effective practices. We will not provide a sales pitch on products. Instead we will provide solid information from proven experts.
Another area we can help is in establishing a successful data and analytics program which may include: determining the objectives of the effort; assessing the maturity of the capability; developing strategies and roadmaps; making the business case; creating architectures; and building a BIA Center of Excellence. In support of these activities we will describe fast track approach that produce an effective outcome; save time and mitigate risk when tailored to your organization’s specific needs.