the business side of data warehousing

... Meeting the Other Side of Google Google’s business isn’t just advertising In the beginning of this chapter, I emphasize advertising as the revenue model that drives Google’s growth as a business- services ... Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google In the next two years, online businesses might want to diversify their marketing efforts, reaching for recognition on other platforms besides Google’s ... revenue Unlike the busy lifestyle of fulfilling orders taken through a Web site, the passive-revenue lifestyle lets the site the work, not you 19 20 Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google Google...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... Communications,’’ was the same Even the boxy, 3-D logos at the top center of the invoices matched But the descriptions of the purchases did not In the body of the Squire invoice, in place of ‘‘design and ... out of the beautiful home that was no longer theirs Along with the house, most of their possessions had been sold, and they were returning to Ohio with the children As they placed the last of their ... up the endorsements on the backs of the checks with the vendor names on the in-house versions of the invoices Some of the mismatches were so obvious, it hurt For example, the check that Aesop issued...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 17:54

... two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation This book has no such unifying theme We did consider, for ... life-and-death issues The answers may often seem odd but, after the fact, also rather obvious We will seek out these answers in the data whether those data come in the form of schoolchildren’s ... agents themselves and the houses they sold on behalf of clients Using the data from the sales of those 100,000 Chicago homes, and controlling for any number of variables—location, age and quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... costeffective data warehousing Eliminate the need for special purpose engines Analysis capabilities embedded in the database “Bring the algorithms to the data, not the data to the algorithms” Simplify the ... bought other products of the bank? • How many existing customers availed more of their credit facilities, or went in for an increased level of the same facilities? • What is the average number of ... Customers / 156 of these are in Financial Services! Summary Value of Business Analytics • Enable Banks to have the single source of “Truth” – thereby able to differentiate themselves from the competitors...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15

... throughout the life of your data center The Three Principles of Data Center Infrastructure Design The Three Principles of Data Center Design When you understand the three principles of data center ... Prepare for the Future Power Requirements Business can optimize their data centers by selecting data center infrastructure solutions that work together By recognizing the value of the data center ... Page  The Three Principles of Data Center Infrastructure Design Choosing the Right Mix of Equipment Since the total spend for network infrastructure equipment is but a fraction of the entire data...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 11:20

... program to offset the CO2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S The purchase price of the offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO2 elsewhere ... change a principal theme of his 2005 presidency of the G8 To support work on the issue, the World Economic Forum convened a group of 23 CEOs of leading companies that met during the Forum in Davos, ... responsibility of companies to act on climate change, one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century • Support for elevating the level of international attention to the issue • Recognition of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2014, 20:18

... around the world The immediate trigger of the crisis was the end of the housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... pay off their credit card balances As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most of the loans However, the ... further evidence of the impact of the credit boom The financial services industry’s share of total domestic corporate profits rose “from 10% in the early 1980s to 40% at its peak” in 2007, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:26

... rumblings of thunder we could hear the low sough and moan of the wind in the trees outside of the stockade, like the suppressed wail of human beings in pain; then would come a flare of flickering ... was then the county-seat of Union county, but the name did not suit the people, and the title of the county was changed to Davis Late at night we retired, making our beds on the soft sides of ... abundance of clear and good water The stockade had two gates, the main entrance being on the north side and the other through the eastern fence or wall The guardhouse was opposite the main gate, the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... functions of Ó FEBS 2004 b-arrestins, or by modulating the activity of protein kinase C, which can activate Raf isoforms at the apex of the ERK1/2 module (reviewed in [42]) Redox regulation at each of ... effects of pharmacological inhibitors of ERK1/2 activation can be established, as contributions of glial cell derived cytokines or vascular effects of the inhibitors are not a factor However, the ... not a factor However, the possibility of other kinases also being affected by the inhibitors cannot be excluded Molecular manipulation of select components of the ERK1/2 signaling pathway will be...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, they have in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of life in the modern ... to find in the knowledge worker world Susan Lucia Annunzio, former adjunct professor of management at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and president and CEO of The Center ... within the team to drive the actions required for the desired business results > Execution results: The project manager’s ability to blend the other six characteristics to produce the desired business...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 01:27

... equal doses of awe and scorn, The Other Side of Wall Street offers loving testimony to the need to find your soul in order to truly gain the world.” —Abe Peck, Director of Business to Business Communication, ... them navigate the twists and turns of the financial universe That effort was the genesis of a loyal community that remains to this day, and it was then I realized the power of the Internet, the ... enjoyed the California weather, I was a New Yorker at heart, and I wanted to be closer to the other side of my family CHAPTER • BAGEL BOY 17 My lone goal was to be on the other side of the cash...

Ngày tải lên: 20/05/2014, 14:03

... is designed to support the data slicing and dicing that define the power of a data warehouse There are a variety of alternatives for the implementation of the presentation database, including normalized ... to as a data warehouse,” which significantly skewed users’ understanding of what a data warehouse application offers In reality the data model was a replication of parts of one of the legacy ... Highsmith, one of the founding fathers of the Agile movement, author of Adaptive Software Development, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, and Agile Project Management and one of the two series...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 13:56

... I.1 What’s the Dark Side? I.1.1 Why the Dark Side? I.1.2 Who Cares About the Dark Side? I.1.3 How Dark is the Dark Side? I.1.4 What Else is on the Dark Side? I.1.5 Ethics and the Dark Side I.1.6 ... start of the race The analysis of the failure of the project concludes the following: “Study after study reveals that sprinters have the most problems in the fractions of a second around the start, ... around the issue of who “owned” the data and what would be done with the results The students were of the opinion that student representatives should administrate the data They claimed that the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:41

... make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to too much We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really ... Eat your ownpoint where you can dogfood Get to a and will use it yourself Launch.better The sooner, the ... Priority Severity Impact LOE (Estimated) LOE (Actual) Browser/OS Relationships Keep it Redundant with the resolving comment Keep it Captured implicitly Captured implicitly Always “yesterday” Priority...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 13:50

... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, they have in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of life in the modern ... WELCOME TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUNGLE 11 Attempting to create successful project teams through the use of squishy-sounding words like these is often derided as the use of soft skills But the ability ... within the team to drive the actions required for the desired business results > Execution results: The project manager’s ability to blend the other six characteristics to produce the desired business...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... to find in the knowledge worker world Susan Lucia Annunzio, former adjunct professor of management at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and president and CEO of The Center ... enough, there may be no impact, but the later in a project they are discovered, the larger their impact on cost and the greater the time to fix them Arun has found that driving a process of constant ... little understanding of the real concerns and issues of the local employees Discussion with peers at other sites revealed much the same feeling After the calls, many of the attendees at Tom’s...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... leadership, view the world in this simplistic way Quite often, this hinders the dissemination of the technology they create, exactly the opposite of what they would like to see The next three stories ... Accountability: All the team members knew what was expected of them and what they could expect of others Accountability went all the way to the design center VP, who himself told the team in a kickoff meeting ... demoralizes the team as it chases the proverbial carrot that the project leader seems to hold out of reach The team will assume that of you unless you find another way to generate the needed business...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... have discussed only twelve of the open items and closed only five of them Ravi has scheduled another two-hour meeting for the next day Another day shot, they drift back to their cubicles Jiao calls ... understand the essential difference between the process of approving projects (initiating) and the subsequent planning and executing of these projects Data that are completely acceptable for the purpose ... www.amanet.org INITIATING 123 unnecessarily cost the business money Often, organizations these together, but sometimes they one in isolation from the other Share papers and studies that show that...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... generate data for the purpose of monitor and control that are useful to the people generating the data This requires that your approach to the project be one of solving the team’s problems, rather ... are otherwise fine in practice may exhibit some strange behaviors For example, they may throw the ball without ensuring that there is a teammate in the vicinity of the pass Also, some of them ... get the most out of them, which leaves them feeling frustrated and rudderless On the other hand, Sheila’s team has a strong sense that they are being led somewhere that might just be good for them...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20