Conversations with Data Warehouse Experts – Mark Tabladillo

Here at Dimodelo Solutions, we are passionate about data warehouses and the benefits they can bring an organisation. But we are equally passionate about the art and practice (the how) of building these critical information assets. This is why we developed our Metadata Driven Data Warehouse tool “Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio” (formally Dimodelo Architect). What…

How do you gather requirements for a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project ? Typically, on a BI project, if you ask a business user, ‘what do you want’ you will get one of 2 responses. I don’t know. I want everything. Which are, effectively, the same thing… As much as it pains IT people to hear…

Dimensional modeling is a data modeling technique used to model the presentation layer of a data warehouse. It focuses on delivering simplicity and query performance for the end user. It allows users to easily understand and navigate the data available for reporting and ad hoc analysis. A dimensional model supports high-performance aggregated queries and performs…

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Webb, a well respected independent consultant based in the UK.  He specialises in Analysis Services, MDX, Power Pivot, DAX, Power Query and Power BI in general.  He is a widely read blogger having authored more than a 1000 posts over the last 10 years. …