Beyond Data » Business Intelligence http://blog.vasukikasturi.com Tempered thoughts on Enterprise Data Management Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:27:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 10 mistakes to avoid for data warehouse project managers http://blog.vasukikasturi.com/bi/10-mistakes-to-avoid-for-data-warehouse-project-managers http://blog.vasukikasturi.com/bi/10-mistakes-to-avoid-for-data-warehouse-project-managers#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:23:32 +0000 Vasuki Kasturi http://blog.vasukikasturi.com/2007/03/29/10-mistakes-to-avoid-for-data-warehouse-project-managers/ This is an excerpt of the complete article on TDWI. The article, with the same title, is for members only. Hope you enjoy.

Mistake 1. Failing to Use a Methodology
Mistake 2. Ineffective Project Team Structure
Mistake 3. Failing to Involve the Business People
Mistake 4. Failing to Have Application Releases
Mistake 5. Failing to Have an Active Project Charter
Mistake 6. Lack of a Readiness Assessment
Mistake 7. Inadequate Testing
Mistake 8. Underestimating Data Cleansing Efforts
Mistake 9. Ignoring Metadata
Mistake 10. Being a Slave to Project Management Tools

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Lets take a subset of some of the BI offerings, and see how Open Source solutions match up against them.

  1. Databases: PostGres (or Bizgres) and MySQL.
  2. ETL: Enhydra Octopus and Clover
  3. OLAP: Mondrian and GreenPlum
  4. Dashboards (Portal approach): JBoss Portal, JetSpeed, LifeRay and Gluecode (now owned by IBM.
  5. Reporting: Jasper Reports, BIRT

If this doesn’t sound promising, Pentaho is planning a Open Source BI distribution that brings all of the above together and some more. This sounds very exciting for myself and for my company, which has been providing Open Source solutions for almost 5 years.

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