Business intelligence initiatives should be seen as programmes NOT projects. Such programmes should be ongoing, becoming more honed and sophisticated, as business needs change. To achieve this, and then to sustain it in a changing business environment, requires more than any "data-warehouse-in-a-box" or "30-day wonder cure" solution will be able to provide. One needs a proven BI planning framework (ie The Seven Streams).
This is just one of topics that will be covered at the "Implementing an Information Factory: A Practitioner`s Workshop" which will be held on 11 March at Gallagher Estate, Midrand. The workshop will provide a detailed tutorial of the so-called Seven Streams Framework, ie Corporate Data Model (Subject by Subject), Corporate Knowledge Co-ordination (Artefact by Artefact), Corporate Information Factory Development (Topic by Topic), Data Profiling and Mapping (Source by Source), Data Cleansing (Attribute by Attribute), Infrastructure Management (Component by Component), and Data Quality Management (Element by Element).
The workshop proceeds the "Data Warehousing & The Information Factory: Best Practices Forum" which is being held on 9 and 10 March, also at Gallagher Estate. The forum will be presented by internationally acclaimed "father of data warehousing", Bill Inmon, and will showcase the Corporate Information Factory and Government Information Factory on consecutive days.
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. Sponsors include Oracle, Computer Associates, e.com Institute, Effective Intelligence and Sybase.
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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