In a recent article by Wayne W. Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research, entitled “Operational BI: Sorting Out Your Options”, the options are given for providing near realtime business intelligence. The point of the article seems to be that you can have your BI either fast or of high quality, but not both. Given that a data [...]
In the previous post, we took a look at the solution CAST brought to our challenges and how good those solutions were in bringing real benefit to the organization. Here, we will take a look at some of the other things we didn’t do (for one reason or another) that we could have to reap [...]
In the first post I took a look at some of the challenges we faced within the data warehouse group that we hoped CAST could help us with. In this post, we will take a look at how the challenges were met by CAST.
The Solutions
To address the challenge of maintaining up-to-date, complete and accurate technical documentation of the data warehouse platform, CAST was used to analyze the production platform after every deliverable…
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 …