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Michael Haisten
 Michael is Daman's Vice President for Business Intelligence. He has provided leadership in the information management and architecture disciplines for over 22 years. He has served as chief architect, designer, and technical expert for over 70 data warehouse and data access projects. Over the course of his career, he has worked with more than 130 Fortune 500 corporations, and numerous government, university, and non-profit organizations. Michael is an acclaimed author and visionary who pioneered such forward-thinking concepts as real-time data warehousing and the VITAL Step-By-Step™ methodology. As a seasoned BI veteran, he combines knowledge of relevant technologies and techniques with the savvy of real-world experience.
Sample Presentations
- What's Next?
Length: 1 - 1 1/2 hours
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Data Warehousing is a mature concept. Most enterprises have (at least) one in production. Some environments are in retreat, others are stable, and the lucky few still have plans for growth. Are the glory days of data warehousing over? Far from it! Considerable opportunities exist to wring greater returns out of your data warehouse investment. Many firms face the challenge of integrating a myriad of warehouses, marts, and data stores that proliferated throughout the organization. New analytic tools and techniques expand the impact of your existing assets. Virtually everywhere, there is untapped potential to grow both content and usage. Availability, flexibility and efficiency can all be enhanced. Possibly the greatest opportunity is to abandon the batch mentality and move aggressively to real-time data warehousing. The next stage in data warehouse evolution is now underway.
- Real-Time Data Warehousing
Length: 1 - 1 1/2 hours
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We are now poised for the most radical transition in the short history of data warehousing. We are about to witness the arrival of Real-time Data Warehousing (RTDW). Despite its name, the impact of this change is due less to the increase in speed of availability (which is significant) than to a significant reduction in overall processing complexity. We will replace a brute force process with elegant yet powerful simplicity.
Real-time Data Warehousing will eliminate the artificial bottlenecks we have designed into our solutions from the very beginning. It will solve some of the most vexing data warehouse problems such as change data capture. It will allow us to return to co-engineered, end-to-end system architectures.
So what is RTDW? It is an historical and analytic component of an enterprise level data stream. This data stream supports continuous, asynchronous, multi-point delivery of data. To paraphrase: Data moves straight from the originating source to all uses that do not require some form of staging. This movement takes place soon after the original data is written. Any time delays are due solely to transport latency and (optionally) miniscule processing times to dispatch or transform the instance of data being delivered.
Warehousing today is about managing the information supply chain from end-to-end. We reach back for raw data as it is generated and transform it on the fly (Real-time Data Warehousing). We integrate and automate the business intelligence process to effect change continuously (Closed-Loop Analysis). The concept now extends over the front-ends (Portals), delivery vehicles (Data Marts), and exploratory methods (Multi-Dimensional Cubes) to encompass the entire range of information exchange. It ends only at the point that information facilitates action.
Look into the heart of every dominant company and you will find the same thing: a mastery of the flow of information in support of business goals. This is the role of Real-Time Data Warehousing.
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