Two of the things that I’ve had the immense pleasure of enjoying in my career are the life stories of Bill Inmon and Dan Linstedt. Both of these men have shared some of the funniest stories with me, as well as the wisdom that resulted from the experiences of those stories. There’s nothing better than…
The Data Warrior Kent Graziano and DataRebels Owner, Cindi Meyersohn, are back for another conversation! Today, the topic of discussion is in-person conferences – in an ever-increasing virtual world, is there a benefit to traveling to be in-person? Kent: Hey there Cindi, so we’re here talking about the benefits of in-person conferences. I’m going to…
The most recent two meetings of the Data Vault North American User Group (DVNAUG) were a two-part webinar focused on end-to-end Data Vaults Done Right, presented by John Giles, an independent consultant and author of “The Nimble Elephant: Agile Delivery of Data Models Using a Pattern-Based Approach” and “The Elephant in the Fridge: Guided Steps…
For this post, guest blogger Sanjay Pande of DataVaultAlliance drops in to give his take on the women speaking at the upcoming World Wide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) 2023. It’s Women’s History Month, a time where we can highlight women in the Data Warehousing space. The representation of women at our annual event has been…
In part two of this blog series, we sit down with Kent Graziano and Cindi Meyersohn to dig a bit deeper on data governance and its relationship to data quality. Cindi: Kent, we’ve already talked about data governance as it relates to security, now what about data quality? Kent: It’s important to talk about the…
With the growth of volume and diversity of data in recent years, it has become even more critical for organizations to develop an effective and scalable data governance strategy, and its closely aligned sibling discipline – Master Data Management. The importance of ensuring the security and the quality of data has never been more important than now.
The Data Vault North American User Group (DVNAUG) held its quarterly, public webinar on June 8th, 2022, to learn from Data Vault practitioners and network with the Data Vault user community. DVNAUG saw many returning faces and welcomed newcomers as they heard from John Giles and Bryan Thomas. Each meeting covers a different topic relevant…
To Train or Not to Train – Is That Still a Question? Sadly, for decades now, I have seen way too many people and organizations give professional training and certification short shrift. Much to their detriment in the end. This has always baffled me, because I have consistently found value in attending training classes, workshops,…
Business-Driven Data Vault Webinar, Fast-forward from business requirements to business intelligence. This webinar took place on March 11th, 2021. In this webinar, Cindi Meyersohn joins Juha Korpela on Business-Driven Data Vault Dialogue. Watch Now Webinar Agenda: The basics of business-driven conceptual modeling Why choose Data Vault 2.0 as your Data Warehouse design Applying automation –…
Data Vault is now Popular! Over the last six years (after I joined Snowflake basically), I have witnessed a massive increase in the interest and implementation of Data Vault 2.0. I have talked to literally hundreds of companies across the globe and across all industries about changing their approach to building an enterprise data platform….