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 …
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 …
In a previous post, I mentioned that one of the impacts of implementing a master data management system was removing some or all of the data integration responsibilities from the data warehouse. Since the data warehouse is the usual place for data integration, in particular customer data integration, I would like to explain myself and see if you agree, or at least see my point of view…
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 …
Many people active in analytical CRM got used to the situation of sitting on the fence between marketing and BI technology / DWH. In many organisations…