Data Warehouse...Done: Automatic For and By the Business.
Building and maintaining data warehouses have long challenged organizations, both large and small. These difficulties have often delayed or destroyed much needed implementations, especially in small and medium enterprises. Data warehouse automation—systems and methods—promise to ease these challenges. However, business buy-in and commitment is mandatory.
This paper describes three principles and practices by which business can support data warehouse automation projects. They are: diversity over disparity, collaboration over control, and agility over anarchy. Together, these approaches offer enable the creation of a “biz-tech ecosystem” where business and IT become true partners in the provision of data for business management.