
Reporting is treated as a boring process that can be once set up and then consummated with press the button. In current situation where more and more markets are becoming very dynamic and flooded with complex products and services, reporting environment has become extremely challenging. There is the solution how confront chaotic reporting environment.
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Maintenance of Data Warehouse
Relatively little attention is paid in the literature on the maintenance of data warehouses. This business segment is not only irrelevant in the life cycle of any IT system but the Warehouse perhaps more pronounced than in other applications. Article will present some of the problems in the ‘life’ of data warehouses.
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How can own Information Systems become show stoppers for new products? Own IS as main enemy of development. It is more than simple.
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Something is Wrong In Investment Process
Imagine long process of Investment Confirmation process with many priorities, bodies, evaluations, processes, documents and etc. Imagine that all process machinery was built for the welfare of company.
Many projects are directly targeting Data Warehouse reporting solutions, and need IT DWH estimation. Estimation is made in form of estimation
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In order to properly interpret meaning of information analytics need to know all elements of information structure together with information distortion effects, transformation of information from one media to another – from one IS to another.
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If company insists on investigating every aspect of business intelligence reporting errors then we are talking about data forensic. It is mandatory to be aware about reporting mistakes that happened but too big focus on every detail of generated error (who made mistake, who signed, who defined process, was everything under procedure, what is the error impact and etc.)
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Google Effect is attention deficit problem where facts can be easily found but not understood. Our brains are physically changing due to data accessibilty. Companies have similar problem due to information hyper production.
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Information System Paradox
Today we can see many paradoxes around us: Higher buildings, less tolerance Bigger houses, smaller families More shopping, less joy More comfort, less time More education, less wisdom More experts, more problems More medicine, less health More information systems, more heavier information understanding Assets are multiplied, but core values are neglected
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Business Intelligence Reporting Trap
It is not always wise to recreate reports from source systems in Data Warehouse. Chances are that you’ll make much more efforts and engage more resources to create report in DWH instead to make it in source system.
Why?
In order to recreate required report in Data Warehouse all data need to imported.
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Data Warehouse is not imune to changes on source systems, actually it is very vulnarable to them. If source systems have duplicate figures, Data Warehouse will also report duplicates. Here is an example from practice where guys made patch on CRM system to handle “urgent” marketing product without making any kind of communication toward reporting – DWH and Business Intelligence. Duplicated figures were in official reports for three months and caused significant deviations of core Key Performance Indicators. Unfortunatelly, reporting mistake was presented to the board members as Data Warehouse error.
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