I recently worked with an organization where we had looked at a tool that was able to analyze all the source code for the ETL jobs of their data warehouse and provide several benefits to the organization as a result. The tool is called CAST, and comes from a company called Cast Software. During the presentation of the tool and its features by the CAST team, I was very impressed by what the tool could do in terms of analyzing source code, and even more, what it could do with the information gathered from that analysis …
It is quite obvious that there is no lack of innovative IT development processes, when one browses through the literature and blogs about software development methodologies. Few are those who would defend the waterfall approach …
Sep 072009
In organizations where the data warehouse has not reached full maturity, which is pretty much the bulk of them, the data warehouse still operates as a department level. This means that the data warehouse was not designed from the ground up to serve the enterprise …