‘Data Governance’ Archives
example of Patient financial data mart at John Hopkins
We would like to write about a patient financial data mart at John Hopkins and the reasons for them to building the same. According to their mission statement - Data mart is Providing patient financial data to Hopkins staff. The background and history of data mart is a valuable information. In 1995 John Hopkins integerated Financial [...]
Slowly Changing Dimension
The "Slowly Changing Dimension" a common problem in data warehousing. Basically, this applies to cases where the attribute for a record varies over time. For Example; George is an employee with XYZ Inc. He first worked at production plant. So, the original entry in the employee lookup table has the following record: Employee ID or Employee [...]
An example of University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI)
This Post is about University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI). University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI) is a service-oriented program focused on empowering the University’s information analysts and decision-makers. We are including this in our website because we found that very help in understanding Data Mart, Data Ware [...]
Human Resource Dashboards
Dashboard technology has been proven to maximize an informed decision making in organizations and getting optimal value value from its data. HR Department can get great benefits by having a deep insight into how employees are contributing to the organization’s progress and what can be done to make them more successfull. HR Professionals are [...]
Data Governance and Metadata
The Metadata literally means information about data. Metadata specifies how a company is going to store and interpret data. Metadata also specifies how data rolls up to become the metrices and KPI's that organizations use to drive every day business decisions. It is critical that the way these items are calculated is consistent throughout an [...]
