Data Management & Decision Support

Data Vault Introductions - Download

For those who want to familiarize themselves with Data Vault, I hereby offer the links to some papers I wrote (sometimes with others) and a presentation I gave recently (see other post for details):

Published originally in Dutch for Database Magazine, an article that is the first part of a triptych regarding the 'Next generation Enterprise Data Warehouaing', this part was an introduction into Data Vault named 'Letting go of the idea of a single version of the truth'  - August 2008 - Download

Published originally in Dutch for Database Magazine, an article that is the second part of a triptych regarding the 'Next generation Enterprise Data Warehouaing', this part deals with the post-Data Vault processing, the business rules in particular - November 2008 - Download

Published originally in Dutch for Database Magazine, an article that is the final part of a triptych regarding the 'Next generation Enterprise Data Warehouaing', this part deals with 'Development processes in Data Warehouse environments' - June 2009 - link

Published in Belgium for BI-community.org, a keynote article titled: Data Vault, Business Objectives for next generation data warehousing - January 2011 - Download

And finally a link to the presentaion I held on the Advanced Data Vault seminar, May 5 & 6 in Baarn, the Netherlands: link

**July 2nd,2011 - Tom Breur wrote a good piece "Tom's ten data tips", very much Data Vault related.

Advanced Data Vault Seminar May 5 & 6 2011

On may 5th and 6th Dan Linstedt and myself hosted an Advanced Data Vault seminar, excellently organized by DIKW-Academy. I think the attendees got good value for their money. Value, no training could ever generate. 

We had great (international) attendance and very good presentations of mainly the engineers who acutually do the work and lead the innovation.

The level of adoption is now growing at a speed which is both exellent, but also worrying. The latter mainly because we - the DV standards committee - see an increasing rate of failed Data Vault projects mainly because companies/consultants underestimate a Data Vault based architecture.

It is Intriguing that the seminar was attended by DV-user-companies, independent consultants and DWH boutiques. There was NO attandance of the big service integrators, who (btw) do a lot of Data Vault implementations....Either they think they get it (ahum) or their management is not willing to invest (the latter I heard a lot). 

For my presentation on the 6th - here's the abstract:

Data Warehousing is still being ridiculized by popular literature and opportunistic vendors (and sometimes analysts) in the Business Intelligence domain - they tend to call it 'traditional' as opposed to their 'silver bullet technology'.

However, data warehousing has evolved and Data Vault - although undervalued by many - is fueling this evolution. Data Vault methodology enables architects to (finally) embed data warehousing into the Enterprise Architecture, something they struggled with the last 15 years. In the Netherlands, Data Vault sky rocketed innovation in the data warehousing scene. Accelerators in terms of frameworks and software are being build by experts in the field and several product vendors picked up on it. The presentation of Ronald Damhof will briefly discuss the evolution of data warehousing as it stands today, the position of Data Vault in the Enterprise Architecture, the different species/forks that exist in Data Vault and the automation that comes with it.

This presentation is of course only slides - the dialogs complete the presentation. You want the dialogue? 1) You should have been there 2) Keep on eye on the DIKW-academy website or follow me on Twitter (@RonaldDamhof).

The presentation can be viewed here.