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 datawarehousing out of the book?

In the last few years I have seen a dozen of data warehouse projects. more than 70% were build upon the (Kimball) Bus architecture having a 2-tier layer. Most of the time build “out of the book”. With other words the architecture has not been applied to what the business needs, but how it is common to do in the field of datawarehousing.  Read more…

It is such a pity that so many designers and -even worse- architects of data warehouses use only 1 architect design for all their customers. It is not called designing under architecture. There is no “one-size-fits-all” architecture for data warehouses. I can image that people still do so because of simplicity in for example implementation. That way even a non data warehouse consultant can implement a data warehouse. It however most often results in poor solutions or failed programs.

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