You are implementing a new release of your warehouse. You`re in the final stages of the implementation - all you have to do is load the data. Panic strikes as your technical lead informs you that the team has discovered problems in the source data and the warehouse cannot be loaded. It is going to take several weeks to resolve the problems and this spells one thing to you: SLIPPAGE! Familiar scenario?
Many DW/BI programmes have found that deadlines are missed owing to bad data being discovered at the proverbial "eleventh hour". How do you ensure that your programme addresses the full lifecycle of data quality in order to protect release deadlines and meet delivery expectations?
This is one of the crucial issues that internationally acclaimed "father of data warehousing", Bill Inmon, will cover at the Data Warehousing and the Information Factory: Best Practices Forum on 9 and 10 March 2004.
The two-day forum will showcase the Corporate Information Factory (CIF) and the Government Information Factory (GIF) over consecutive days. Attendees will learn the essential characteristics of the major components of the Information Factory and will gain insight into strategies for implementing intelligent warehousing both within discrete functions and across the enterprise.
The Best Practices Forum will be followed by a one-day workshop: "Implementing an Information Factory Program: A Practitioner`s Workshop". This session will provide a detailed tutorial of the Seven Streams Framework, ie corporate data model, corporate knowledge co-ordination, corporate information factory, data profiling and mapping, data cleansing, infrastructure management and data quality management.
The Computer Society of South Africa (CSSA), in collaboration with the System Crafter`s Guild and the Gavroshe In-Depth Series, is hosting the event.
For further information about the forum and workshop, visit www.scguild.co.za/DataWareHouse or call Gabi Erasmus on telephone (011) 315 1319 or e-mail gabi@cssa.org.za.
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