Agile Strategies for Enterprise DW and BI

Posted April 22, 2008 | Technology |

Mainstream, centralized business intelligence (BI) efforts can be overly expensive and slow to respond to rapidly evolving business requirements. These deficiencies have led to poorly served and unsatisfied users. However, serious negative consequences would result from the complete abandonment of central, integrated control of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and BI. We need to throw out the bureaucratic bathwater yet still keep the "EDW baby," and the best way to do that is to apply agile techniques and philosophies.

About The Author
Scott Ambler
Scott W. Ambler is a Cutter Expert. He is the cocreator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework and thought leader behind the Agile Modeling and Agile Data methods, working with clients around the world to improve the way they develop software. Mr. Ambler is coauthor of several software development books, including An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Agile Modeling, The Elements of UML 2.0 Style, Agile Database… Read More
Bill Mccrosky
Bill McCrosky is a solution architect in IBM Software Group Cross-Brand Services group. He has been with IBM for nine years and has worked in many technical capacities on customer data warehouse and business intelligence projects. Mr. McCrosky has 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with a concentration in database application development. He is certified as a project manager (PMP) and as an IBM consultant and is one of IBM's leading… Read More
Mei Selvage
Mei Selvage is an SOA data architect with extensive hands-on experience in various information management areas and SOA. Her mission is to bridge the gap between SOA and information management. Her research interests include information management and integration patterns (both structured and unstructured data), data modeling, metadata, faceted search, human collaboration, and SOA. Ms. Selvage can be reached at meis at us.ibm.com.
Cass Squire
Cass Squire is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM's Global Business Services, specializing in BI and data integration architecture. He has more than 25 years of management and staff experience and has been involved in all facets of requirements analysis, data modeling, and database and applications systems design. A specialist in information systems architecture and all facets of data administration and metadata, Mr. Squire began using information… Read More
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