Learn how to make business intelligence (BI) successful in your organization.
How do we enable our organizations to enjoy the often significant benefits of BI and analytics, while at the same time minimizing the cost and risk of failure? In this book, I am not going to try to be prescriptive; I won't tell you exactly how to build your BI environment. Instead, I am going to focus on a few core principles that will enable you to navigate the rocky shoals of BI architecture and arrive at a destination best suited for your particular organization. Some of these core principles include:
Have an overarching strategy, plan, and roadmap
Recognize and leverage your existing technology investments
Support both data discovery and data reuse
Keep data in motion, not at rest
Separate information delivery from data storage
Emphasize data transparency over data quality
Take an agile approach to BI development.
This book will show you how to successfully navigate both the jungle of BI technology and the minefield of human nature. It will show you how to create a BI architecture and strategy that addresses the needs of all organizational stakeholders. It will show you how to maximize the value of your BI investments. It will show you how to manage the risk of disruptive technology. And it will show you how to use agile methodologies to deliver on the promise of BI and analytics quickly, succinctly, and iteratively.
This book is about many things. But principally, it's about success. The goal of any enterprise initiative is to succeed and to derive benefit--benefit that all stakeholders can share in. I want you to be successful. I want your organization to be successful. This book will show you how.
This book is for anyone who is currently or will someday be working on a BI, analytics, or Big Data project, and for organizations that want to get the maximum amount of value from both their data and their BI technology investment. This includes all stakeholders in the BI effort--not just the data people or the IT people, but also the business stakeholders who have the responsibility for the definition and use of data. There are six sections to this book:
In Section I, What Kind of Garden Do You Want?, we will examine the benefits and risks of Business Intelligence, making the central point that BI is a business (not IT) process designed to manage data assets in pursuit of enterprise goals. We will show how data, when properly managed and used, can be a key enabler of several types of core business processes. The purpose of this section is to help you define the particular benefit(s) you want from BI.
In Section II, Building the Bones, we will talk about how to design and build out the "hardscape" (infrastructure) of your BI environment. This stage of the process involves leveraging existing technology investments and iteratively moving toward your desired target state BI architecture.
In Section III, From the Ground Up, we explore the more detailed aspects of implementing your BI operational environment.
In Section IV, Weeds, Pests and Critters, we talk about the myriad of things that can go wrong on a BI project, and discuss ways of mitigating these risks.
In Section V, The Sustainable Garden, we talk about how to create a BI infrastructure that is easy and inexpensive to maintain.
Finally, Section VI presents a case study illustrating the principles of this book, as applied to a fictional manufacturing company (the Blue Moon Guitar Company).
What value does data modeling contribute to an organization, and how can that value be increased?
Starting with analogies from Native American storytelling traditions and drawing on his experiences as an officer in Toastmasters (the International public speaking organization), Larry shows us how we can be data modeling Shamans. We can use data models to bring people together to solve business problems, reengineer inefficient business processes, forge agreements on data meanings, create new business opportunities, and promote data quality and reuse.
Drawing from a host of disciplines, from storytelling to cognitive behavioral therapy, from landscaping to Human-Centered Design, from business process reengineering to domain-driven development, from Agile to object-oriented design, Larry weaves all these threads together into a compelling narrative of using data to get us successfully from where we are now to where we want to be!
If you're a data professional, the bad news is that change is inevitable. But the good news is that change is not only possible, but fun! Larry's book shows how to navigate the shoals of business and technology change, from Agile development to NoSQL databases to Domain-Driven Development to microservices to cloud computing.
Автор: Burns Larry Название: Being Wendall ISBN: 0692551085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692551080 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1531.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burns, Larry Название: Building the agile database ISBN: 1935504150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935504153 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 10937.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Is fast development the enemy of good development? Not necessarily. Agile development requires that databases are designed and built quickly enough to meet fast-based delivery schedules -- but in a way that also delivers maximum business value and reuse. How can these requirements both be satisfied? This book, suitable for practitioners at all levels, will explain how to design and build enterprise-quality high-value databases within the constraints of an Agile project.
Starting with an overview of the business case for good data management practices, the book defines the various stakeholder groups involved in the software development process, explains the economics of software development (including "time to market" vs. "time to money"), and describes an approach to Agile database development based on the five PRISM principles.
This book explains how to work with application developers and other stakeholders, examines critical issues in Agile Development and Data Management, and describes how developers and data professionals can work together to make Agile projects successful while delivering maximum value data to the enterprise.
Building the Agile Database will serve as an excellent reference for application developers, data managers, DBAs, project managers, Scrum Masters and IT managers looking to get more value from their development efforts. Among the topics covered:
Why Agile is more than just the latest development fad
The critical distinction between the logical and physical views of data
The importance of data virtualization, and how to achieve it
How to eliminate the "object-relational impedance mismatch"
The difference between logical modeling and physical design
Why databases are more than "persistence engines"
When and how to do logical modeling and physical design
Use of the logical data model in model-driven development
Refactoring made easier
Developing an "Agile Attitude"
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