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November 2009
Business Intelligence Brief
 

Recent Articles & Podcasts

Understanding the latest data integration strategies and technologies, Oct 2009

Understanding key data integration trends and business drivers, Sep 2009

Beyond ETL and Data Warehousing, Feb 2009

Data Integration: All Together Now, Feb 2009

BI tools vs. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Jan 2009

Data Doghouse


Speaking & Training: Contact us to have Rick Sherman speak at your event or deliver onsite data warehouse training and/or consulting.

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Discount on new Data Modeling Course

My new DW and BI Data Modeling course is now available on ELearningCurve. This is a great bargain compared to traveling to a conference. From now until November 6 you can get a 20% discount by using the coupon code DM0420.

A well designed data model is the cornerstone to building business intelligence and data warehouse applications that provide significant business value. My DW and BI Data Modeling course will help you:

  • understand what Logical Data Modeling is, its goals, and its components
  • know the basics of Entity-Relationship (ER) and dimensional modeling
  • understand how to benefits of and applicability of Dimensional Data Modeling
  • be able to create a Dimensional Data Models for BI & DW applications
  • be positioned to learn more about Data Modeling

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Rick Sherman

Rick Sherman, Athena IT Solutions

 

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About Athena IT Solutions

Athena IT Solutions is a Boston-based consulting firm that provides data warehouse and business intelligence consulting, training and vendor services. Rick Sherman has over 20 years of business intelligence and data warehousing experience, having worked on more than 50 implementations as a director/practice leader at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and while managing his own firm. Rick is a published author of over 50 articles, an industry speaker, a DM Review World Class Solution Awards judge, a data management expert at searchdatamanagement.com, and has been quoted in CFO and Business Week. Sherman can be found blogging on performance management, data warehouse and business intelligence topics at The Data Doghouse. He holds an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You can reach him at rsherman@athena-solutions.com or (617) 835-0546.

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