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Video: Benefits Data Masking

It seems like almost every week there is another major announcement about some organization being hacked and millions of sensitive personal records getting into the wrong hands.  When I hear things like that on the TV, I imagine some computer genius in his basement skillfully navigating the organizations maze safety measures.  But the sad part is many data breaches happen without a whole lot of hacking skills at all.  Rather they are the result of internal organizational negligence.  In other words, the organization inadvertently gives your data away.  Let me share with you two scenarios on

Video: What is an ETL Tool?

Today I want to offer up a challenge to all those watching this video.  Find something in the room you’re in that has never had any data associated to it.  Go ahead look around.  Unless you find yourself watching this in the middle of no man’s land, chances are, that a very high percentage of everything around you has been represented by data at some point in its lifecycle.  Amazing isn’t it…?  So in many ways you can imagine that our digital world of data is a representation of the physical world around us.  And indeed it would be nearly impossible for organizations to accurately describe

Video: SAP BusinessObjects 4

The new SAP BusinessObjects 4 platform introduces a number of enhancements which have both front end and back end benefits. This recorded Video presents and demonstrates how these capabilities will change your BI experience.

After testing the BusinessObjects 4 platform in our labs, we’ve taken the core business benefits we feel you will be able gain out of this new release, and organize the presentation by these benefits. Additionally, we've created some screenshot demonstrations of these capabilities.

Data Governance- The Cat Herders Toolbox

Successful Data Governance programs must be owned by the business, but the people concerned are commonly IT. How can we hope to bring Data Governance to Business Sponsorship and eventually Full Ownership? What tools and steps can help the Business buy into the idea of taking stuardship of their data? To this end, Intricity has produced a workshop and whitepaper titled Data Governance: The Cat Herders Toolbox. This White Paper outlines strategies and a vision for stepping through a Data Governance program within your organization.

 

Video: Retiring Inactive Data

Have you ever seen those shows on TV where they reveal the house of a person that hoards stuff?  One of the things that I immediately noticed when watching those shows is that the Hoarder was always caught up in a conflict of whether they would ever need that object again.   Well today I’m going to share with you a similar habit in the business world.  I call it Legacy Data hoarding. 

Video: What is a Columnar Database?

A couple of years ago I was presented to something  called a Columnar database.  It was accompanied by a demo where the presenter queried several billions of rows of data in less than 3 seconds.  I waited patiently for magic ferries to fly out of the server.   But soon after I realized that this solution was simply taking a far more logical approach to acquiring large sums of data.

Today I’m going to share a simple exercise which will help you see the power of using a Columnar database for certain tasks.

Video: What are Dimensions and Measures?

 

Often when Business and IT come to the same room and begin talking, there are breaking points where the Business get’s lost in the technical terminology. When it comes to data, I’ve noticed this breaking point often starts when the words Dimensions, Measures, Hierarchies, and Grain are used.  This short video is meant to provide some clarity as to what these items are.

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