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Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management (MDM) - 0 views

  • Modern business applications produce ever more relevant and actionable information for decision makers, but in many cases the data sources are fragmented and inconsistent. Despite tremendous advancements at the application layer, nearly all IT initiatives succeed or fail based on the quality and consistency of the underlying data.
  • CIOs are responsible for making information available to their businesses in a consistent and timely basis, but in most organizations, information management is seen as a delegated set of tasks and is not the CIO’s top priority.
  • “Key initiatives such as master data management, data virtualization, data quality, data integration and data governance are employed by just a fraction of organizations that should be mastering the science of information management,”
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  • While CIOs are aware that effective information management results in faster decision-making, according to the Ventana study, only 43% of organizations have undertaken information management initiatives in data governance, data integration, data quality, master data management and data virtualization during the last two years, and less than one fifth have completed those projects. The largest obstacles to completing information management projects are insufficient staffing (68%), inadequate budget (63%) and insufficient training and skills (59%).
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    "Modern business applications produce ever more relevant and actionable information for decision makers, but in many cases the data sources are fragmented and inconsistent. Despite tremendous advancements at the application layer, nearly all IT initiatives succeed or fail based on the quality and consistency of the underlying data."
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BI Brief - Four Legs of a Successful Business Intelligence (BI) Project Team - 0 views

  • 1. Project Sponsorship and Governance 2. Project Management 3. Development Team (Core Team) 4. Extended Project Team
  • 1. Project Sponsorship and Governance IT and the business should form a BI steering committee to sponsor and govern design, development, deployment, and ongoing support. It needs both the CIO and a business executive, such as CFO, COO, or a senior VP of marketing/sales to commit budget, time, and resources. The business sponsor needs the project to succeed. The CIO is committed to what is being built and how.
  • 2. Project Management Project management includes managing daily tasks, reporting status, and communicating to the extended project team, steering committee, and affected business users. The project management team needs extensive business knowledge, BI expertise, DW architecture background, and people management, project management, and communications skills. The project management team includes three functions or members: Project development manager - Responsible for deliverables, managing team resources, monitoring tasks, reporting status, and communications. Requires a hands-on IT manager with a background in iterative development. Must understand the changes caused by this approach and the impact on the business, project resources, schedule and the trade-offs. Business advisor - Works within the sponsoring business organization. Responsible for the deliverables of the business resources on the project's extended team. Serves as the business advocate on the project team and the project advocate within the business community. Often, the business advocate is a project co-manager who defers to the IT project manager the daily IT tasks but oversees the budget and business deliverables. BI/DW project advisor - Has enough expertise with architectures and technologies to guides the project team on their use. Ensures that architecture, data models, databases, ETL code, and BI tools are all being used effectively and conform to best practices and standards.
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  • 3. Development Team (Core Team) The core project team is divided into four sub-teams: Business requirements - This sub-team may have business people who understand IT systems, or IT people who understand the business. In either case, the team represents the business and their interests. They are responsible for gathering and prioritizing business needs; translating them into IT systems requirements; interacting with the business on the data quality and completeness; and ensuring the business provides feedback on how well the solutions generated meet their needs. BI architecture - Develops the overall BI architecture, selects the appropriate technology, creates the data models, maps the overall data workflow from source systems to BI analytics, and oversees the ETL and BI development teams from a technical perspective. ETL development - Receives the business and data requirements, as well as the target data models to be used by BI analytics. Develops the ETL code needed to gather data from the appropriate source systems into the BI databases. Often, a system analyst who is a expert in the source systems such as SAP is part of the team to provide knowledge of the data sources, customizations, and data quality. BI development - Create the reports or analytics that the business users will interact with to do their jobs. This is often a very iterative process and requires much interaction with the business users.
  • 4. Extended Project Team There are several functions required by the project team that are often accomplished through an "extended" team: Players - A group of business users are signed up to "play with" or test the BI analytics and reports as they are developed to provide feedback to the core development team. This is a virtual team that gets together at specific periods of the project but they are committed to this role during those periods. Testers - A group of resources are gathered, similarly to the virtual team above, to perform more extensive QA testing of the BI analytics, ETL processes, and overall systems testing. You may have project members test other members' work, such as the ETL team test the BI analytics and visa versa. Operators - IT operations is often separated from the development team but it is critical that they are involved from the beginning of the project to ensure that the systems are developed and deployed within your company's infrastructure. Key functions are database administration, systems administration, and networks. In addition, this extended team may also include help desk and training resources if they are usually provided outside of development.
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18 Free SQL Server 2014, Azure and BI virtual labs - A Story of BI, BIG Data and SQL Se... - 0 views

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    SQL Server BI vortual labs
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How To Get Cisco VPN to Work on Windows 8 - 0 views

  • Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the client. Reason 442: Failed to enable Virtual Adapter
  • HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CVirtA
  • regedit
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  • Win + R
  • For x86, change the value data from something like “@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter” to “Cisco Systems VPN Adapter” For x64, change the value data from something like “@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows” to “Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows”
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