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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. He found a rich collection of data assets, including information on over 2.2 As a result, Pimblett now runs the organization’s data warehouse, analytics, and business intelligence.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

An obvious parallel in my world is to consider another business activity that reached peak popularity in the 2000s, Data Warehouse programmes [4]. Figures suggest that both BPR and Data Warehouse programmes have a failure rate of 60 – 70% [5]. – McKinsey 2009. . [6]. – McKinsey 2009. . [6].

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2009: Amazon releases its own Relational Database Services on cloud to simplify set up and operations. 2012: Amazon Redshift, the first of its kind cloud-based data warehouse service comes into existence. Fact: IBM built the world’s first data warehouse in the 1980’s. who saw the potential that cloud offered.