Articles: Architecture/Modeling: Industry- and Application-Specific Issues
The Finance Function Knocks at Your Door by Ken Jones (6/28/2002)
Are you ready to take on the analytic needs
of your finance people?

Clickstream Data Mart by Joe Caserta (12/5/2001)
It's part of the 360-degree customer view.
It's being requested more. Are you ready?

ERP Vendors: Bring Down Those Walls (6/26/2000)
ERP vendors need a more open, dynamic approach
if they are to join the e-business paradigm

The Special Dimensions of the ClickStream (1/20/2000)
The high leverage dimensions needed for a successful
clickstream data mart

Not So Fast (10/26/1999)
Designing Profitability Data Marts

The Budgeting Chain (6/1/1999)
Dimensional designs: budgets, commitments, and actuals

The Market Basket Data Mart (4/20/1999)
Reorganizing retail data into a dimensional schema
for market basket analysis

Warehousing Without Borders (3/9/1999)
International names and addresses

Clicking With Your Customer (1/5/1999)
A design for a clickstream data mart in the data webhouse

Think Globally, Act Locally (12/1998)
International warehouse designs; localization;
character sets; currencies; calendars

Human Reources Data Marts (2/1998)
Design guidelines for querying and analyzing employee data;
Advanced Type 2 SCD design

Traveling Through Databases (5/1997)
Ralph Guides Us Through Voyages and Networks

Data Warehouse Insurance (12/1995)
How an insurance company built a dimensional data warehouse
to analyze claims across all lines of business
Note: this article chose the fictitious name “InsureCo” to talk about.
Sure enough, we got a call from a real InsureCo demanding that we stop using their name. Our sincere apologies. We won’t do it again.