Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

“The Quest for Stability”

The nitty-gritty balancing act for creating a quality reporting environment… while enforcing rules and design specifications

that add value to the data you collect.

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How do customers shape your decisions?

Executive Management FocusSenior Business Office ManagementSenior IT ManagementFunctional Department ManagementDepartmental StaffFederal AgenciesState of Tennessee Agencies…and our Competition!

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Life cycle:

Providing value to all stakeholders during light or heavy system restructuring, data collection, human, cost, or other resource challenges….

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Information Portfolio Management?

What Information is collectedInformation qualityCosting factors, both capital and humanTiming – Planned vs. Dramatic changeProject Life‐cycles

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Portfolio Management: How does a planned or unplanned system change affect my data?

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Design Flexibility or Pre‐determined Rules

Collection activities: bulk, streamed…Transformation rules: in‐flight and postDashboarding Results Dynamic Analytical IntelligenceArchiving policies

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Transformation Rules:

Analytical Rules:

1:1 Relationships:

Transformation rules: in‐flight and post

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SGHE Developed Analytical Rules: ODS 8.1* The value add to Enterprise data collection

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SGHE Developed Analytical Rules: ODS 8.2

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Gaining a perspective on your operation based on metrics and analysis on pre‐determined elements…

…and then presented both as a dynamically adjusting portal or via static results. 

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Dashboards:

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Star and Snowflake designs

Architectural Impact to Data:

Poor or Improper Star or Snowflake designs can impact how data is stored and therefore the results on specific elements being researched can be skewed. 

Validation of Business Rules against the designs is a very important step in quality assurance efforts.

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Dimensional Growth Patterns

Legacy dataNew data requirementsOther source systemsArchiving Processes

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Data Security is not an after thought:* It must be our first thought!

Gather the business requirementsIntegrate planning (systems & rules)Incorporate a clean designa. Content filteringb. Intrusion Preventionc. Identity ManagementTracking: Analyzing provides project focus(Everyone’s) reputation is on the line

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Students, networks, data , datacenters are now located around the world from within the US, Tennessee, and even foreign places.

Globalization:

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What’s next… I have a plan, a design, data:

Reporting!

Performance Financial Processes Student Achievement Budgetary RelationshipsEstablishing Effective BaselinesComparisons with peers and competition

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Integrating Departmental requirements and project “needs” into a matrix that can be used to determine where human inteland development  efforts will go. 

Spheres of InfluenceLayers of RequirementsLevels of PrioritiesMultiple Project Directions

Adaptable Priorities

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Summary:

Customer OrientationInformation ManagementDesign and RulesData SecurityWhat’s next

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Advice: The lack of a Disciplined approach in your Information Technology solutions and decision making practices:

Will lead to complexity in the system and application environments… Which then {logically} leads to ever increasing

challenges in controlling costs… And eventually leads to data integrity issues… And a full spectrum of dissatisfaction.

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Contact details:

Greg TurmelSr. Database AdministratorTennessee Board of Regents1415 Murfreesboro Rd. #358Nashville, TN. 37217615.366.4467 (Office)itinfo.tbr.edu (IT website)http://twitter.com/datahaulr http://www.linkedin.com/in/gturmel