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predictive analytics suggested reading?

I am curious if anyone has any recommendations on understanding predictive analytics concepts and/or techniques. In particular, how to apply such concepts to datawarehousing and dimensional modeling. I am not sure if there are any conceptual books on

Data Warehouse for survey data

Hi All, Working with a company which uses Salesforce.com heavily. They have a large number of custom fields, and great volatility in them - frequently adding and deleting them when they cease being relevant (They collect survey data for their clients).

SOA and Data Warehousing

Hello everyone.... I need your help here. I am working on some DW related roadmaps. I am stuck on role SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) is going to play in Data Warehousing ETL in- particular and BI in-general. Your comments on above mentioned are

Looking for a Data Architect

My company is seeking a Senior Data Architect. We are a Kimball shop, but we also build & support ODSes as well. Please send my a PM if interested! Here is description: As a member of our technology team, you will contribute to the

Data mart design

Lets say I need to model Frauds. There is 2 departments handle different Frauds say (Contract and Health care). I am going to model this in MD (fact, dimension). Now should I just create one Fact table(Business Process) and use say Fraud type (Contract,

Data Warehouse with high data availability

When a data warehouse is being updated by periodical ETL load, there could be significant performance impact on the end users' reports while the underlying tables are touched. The data becomes volatile and the query results could be different between

Data Warehousing Vendors (Manufacturing)

Dear Sir or Madam We are a local company located in Syria, specialized in Industrial Confectionary Development (Food; Biscuit, Chocolate and Juice) The company seeks to find consultants/ vendors in order to initiate a data warehouseing project to be

Defining technical requirements for a datawarehouse, an existing one at that

I have no experience doing requirements documentation for a data warehouse, and am hoping an experienced practitioner or two can provide some practical lessons from documenting a data warehouse. To add an extra twist, the data warehouse is already in

Staging Activities

What are the common staging activities that the Kimball method recognizes? Traditionally I have used staging databases to 1) Decouple from the source-to-Data Mart for restartability 2) Consolidate multiple sources and source formats into a single

Request of information: Italian softwarehouse for federated Data Warehouse

Hello, I work for an Italian financial Company that needs to reorganize the current reporting system (mainly based on Business Objects), which is made of many Data Warehouses and Datamarts in Oracle and SAP/BI. I'm interested in a federated solution

New Release Media Companion gen2 3.148

Just a small update on 3.143 New feature for Movies, support for <sortorder> tags. The field is below the Movie title, by default it is the same as the title, but xbmc will list movies alphabetically according to what is in this tag. You ca

BF040-I50B_N09 Board to Board Connector

Hi, Can BF040-I50B_N09 (J1-J4) from base board be replaced with BF040-I50B_N15? I cannot find datasheet regarding the connector. It would be best if anyone can provide datasheet of the said connector (BF040-I50B_N15).

Bimbingan Teknis Pengembangan E Learning SMK RSBI Se Indonesia Di Jakarta

Pada tanggal 21 Juli sampai dengan 23 Juli 2010 , SMKN 1 Slawi mengirimkan perwakilan kaitannya dengan undangan dari Ditpsmk yaitu Bimbingan Teknis Pengembangan E Learning yang diikuti oleh seluruh SMK RSBI dari seluruh indonesia yang bertempat di Melawai