Sid Adelman
Sid Adelman is a principal in Sid Adelman & Associates, an organization specializing in planning and implementing data warehouses, in data warehouse and BI assessments, and in establishing effective data architectures and strategies. He is a regular speaker at DW conferences. Adelman chairs the "Ask the Experts" column on www.dmreview.com. He is a frequent contributor to journals that focus on data warehousing. He co-authored Data Warehouse Project Management and is the principal author on Impossible Data Warehouse Situations with Solutions from the Experts and Data Strategy. He can be reached at (818) 783-9634 or sid@sidadelman.com. Visit his Web site at www.sidadelman.com.
Recent Stories From this Author
Metadata is the DNA for Your Organization
May 20, 2008 Metadata is the DNA for your organization, and as such, we should now understand its criticality.
Can data warehouses be designed to cover all possible queries on dimensions that we throw at it without providing a list of reports to an IT department?
March 7, 2008 First of all, some reports can be predicted. The reports users get today that will be satisfied by the data warehouse will...
Is there a good book for BI project management that you would recommend?
November 28, 2007 Very soon there will be a very good book for Agile BI PM. I am hoping to publish it in the fall of 2008.
Should the metadata layer that sits between the data marts and the query/reporting tools be owned by the business or IT?
November 28, 2007 It depends on what is meant by “owned.” IT should provide the metadata repository along with the rules about who can...
What are your views on the advantages and/or disadvantages ETL tools and data modeling versus code?
November 28, 2007 Data modeling tools are inexpensive and writing code to provide the same function is pointless. You have too much work to do to...
Where is the best place for a BI application to reside?
November 28, 2007 There are different kinds of BI applications. Some BI applications are data marts. A data mart is defined as an environment...
Are there best practices or tools for creating a data dictionary?
November 28, 2007 Take a look at "Business Metadata," by William Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil and Lowell Fryman. Also look at Dave Marco’s...
Can you suggest some parameters and benchmarks against which a data warehouse implementation should be measured before accepting it?
November 1, 2007 Thanks for the question. I wish more organizations established such parameters and benchmarks. Here are a few to consider...
Are there any templates, checklists or questions to consider that would assist in prioritizing the various projects/initiatives required by data warehouse clients?
November 1, 2007 I can, however, share with you an approach that has worked very well.üThis is a variation of the Kepner-Tregoe decision...
How long a transition period is needed to safely change DW maintenance vendors?
October 31, 2007
