One of the more difficult tasks when designing and building a data warehouse for an asset manager, insurance company or some other financial institution, is to create a data model […]
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The Key to Good Data Quality in Your Financial Data Warehouse
Recently, Mathworks came out with a report where they surveyed the financial industry, and concluded that the quality of data, rather than the volume of data, is by far the […]
Big Data Is No Substitute For the Financial Data Warehouse
The suggestion is going around these days that with the proliferation of “big data,” data warehouses are fast becoming obsolete: today’s version of the mainframe (or even the buggy whip). […]
Article in Information Management: 5 Signs That You Are Not In Control of Your Data
No matter what business you are in, your company’s data is a crucial raw material. Information lets you maximize production efficiency, market products effectively and plan for the future. The […]
TDWI Q&A: Data Warehouses and the Demands of Big Data
Jonas Olsson: Of course not. Big data and data warehousing are two different technologies solving two different sets of challenges. Big data focuses on volume and unstructured data; data warehousing […]
Article in TDWI: Load First, Model Later – What Data Warehouses Can Learn from Big Data
Big data has captured the attention of everyone from the common man to the CEO to the data professional. The common man gets excited at big data’s potential to solve […]
Article in GARP: Time to Reconsider the Data Warehouse
Since the financial crises of 2008, the need for better risk control for financial institutions has become acute. However, the data required for a truly complete picture of financial risk […]
Data quality, Data Warehouse and Solvency II Compliance
If all processes run on schedule, the insurance industry in the European Union will be staring at new regulation effective 2014. The new directive, Solvency 2, is meant to plug […]