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Joel Onditi

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Seven Deadly Sins of Database Design

This is a summary of an article from Database Trends And Applications; dbta.com. The author addresses fundamental mistakes that we do or we live with in regards to our database systems. 1. Poor or missing documentation for databases in PRODUCTION We may have descriptive table names and columns to begin with, but as workforce turns […]

Take part in some Big Data

Happy Monday everyone! Okay so I will join the Big Data noise (not that I have not taken part in creating it 🙂 ) but this time I wanted to bring to light a way that any interested party can take part in it. I have written here before about how the open source world, […]

Mobile BI

I was going through some TDWI material and found what they considered the ‘Best of BI’ in 2011. They mentioned mobile BI as being one of the top. With mobile devices being a key piece of a business today, and Gartner mentioning that by 2013, 33% of BI functionality will be consumed via a mobile […]

Top emerging trends for BI in 2012 – Open Source world keeping up!

I am in the process of an ETL engagement with a client who is using Pentaho, an open source BI suite of products. This has made me reach out to my resources and get caught up with the open source world of BI, and especially Pentaho.Â