Data modeling tools and techniques

MUST READ Data Warehouse Platforms Product Directory PRODUCT DIRECTORY - Inside this data warehouse platform product directory you'll find basic information about the major vendors in the data warehouse market and the products they sell. Definitions of design and data modeling BOOK CHAPTER - Get a comprehensive definition of data modeling and learn about the issue of "design" versus "description" in a data modeling context. Data modeling for the business: What is a data model? CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - Learn about high-level data modeling, what a data model is and how business and IT can use logical data modeling to plan a data design with these best practices from.

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	Why business users should care about data modeling, and how to persuade them SearchDataManagement.com | 10 Feb 2009 ARTICLE - Data modeling can be a difficult concept for business users to understand, but its value needs to be explained if management is going to support (and fund) it.

	Self-service business intelligence tools failing to make headway at most organizations SearchDataManagement.com | 27 Jan 2009 ARTICLE - Data models that limit the analysis end users can perform is hampering self-service BI adoption, according to Forrester Research. Columnar databases could change that.

	Business intelligence, data mining maximize direct marketing for Intellidyn SearchDataManagement.com | 28 Aug 2008 ARTICLE - Intellidyn improves clients' direct marketing campaigns through data mining and analytics built on an SAS-based business intelligence platform.

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	Understanding five major enterprise information management benefits 20 Nov 2009 EXPERT ANSWER - Learn about the primary enterprise information management (EIM) benefits and five major problems EIM can help solve, including data quality, information management, process efficiency, security and organizational agility.

	What are the differences between fact tables and dimension tables in star schemas? 23 Sep 2008 EXPERT ANSWER - Although both are tables used in star schemas, there are differences between dimension tables and fact tables. Learn more from a data warehouse expert.

	Data architect vs. application architect: Segregate the duties 29 Jul 2008 EXPERT ANSWER - Find out the duties of data architects and application architects -- and why they should not overlap, according to a data modeling expert.

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	Data modeling concepts: How settings can increase application success by Steve Hoberman | 20 Nov 2009 CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - Learn how four camera settings translate directly to the data model, and how understanding these data modeling concepts can increase the chances of a successful application.

	Examples of single and bulk XML shredding of XML documents by Matthias Nicola and Pav Kumar-Chatterjee | 26 Oct 2009 CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - In this guide, learn how to perform single and bulk XML shredding, plus find plenty of examples of documents being shredded.

	Shredding XML docs into relational tables with annotated XML schemas by Matthias Nicola and Pav Kumar-Chatterjee | 26 Oct 2009 CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - In this XML tutorial, find out how to shred XML documents into relational tables with annotated XML schemas and see 14 examples of XML annotations.

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	Data models serve as blueprint for business intelligence, master data management projects Published by: SearchDataManagement.com | 22 Jun 2009 PODCASTS - No business intelligence or master data management initiative should start without a well-designed data model to guide the project.

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	predictive modeling 12 Mar 2002 WORD - Predictive modeling is a process used in predictive analytics to create a statistical model of future behavior. Predictive analytics is the area of data mining concerned with forecasting probabilities and trends. A ...

	data modeling 09 Nov 2003 WORD - Also see: Unified Modeling Language (UML). Data modeling is the analysis of data objects that are used in a business or other context and the identification of the relationships among these data objects. Data modeling is a ...

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