Insight Space Graph

The Insight Space Graph is my concept of an automated recording, mapping, and linking of simple insights gleaned primarily from human analysts performing typical Business Intelligence tasks. An example of such an insight are the overall trends and spikes spotted in a time series line graph. Such insights provide hints that contribute towards decisions, direction, … Continue reading Insight Space Graph →

Embedding a Data Vault in a Data Mesh – Part 1 of 5

Introduction Data Mesh is one of many current buzzwordy concepts addressing what is often underwhelming perceived value from Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) implementations. Similar current concepts include data fabric, data virtualization, and data marketplace. None of those concepts are mutually exclusive. They all somehow facilitate mapping diverse data from across an enterprise for ready consumption … Continue reading Embedding a Data Vault in a Data Mesh – Part 1 of 5 →

Map Rock – 10th Anniversary and Some Data Mesh Talk

Squeezing More Value Out of SSAS It's been a bit over ten years since I began software development based on a set of ideas I eventually named Map Rock. Since it was such a big part of my life for a few years, I thought I'd commemorate its 10th anniversary with a blog. That is, … Continue reading Map Rock – 10th Anniversary and Some Data Mesh Talk →

OLAP is Back as Kyvos Insights

In 2013 I wrote a blog titled, Is OLAP Terminally Ill? I used the term "Terminally Ill" because I didn't believe that the strategy of managing pre-aggregations was dead. Temporarily unnecessary, maybe, but not dead. To be clear, by "OLAP" (Online Analytical Processing), I meant in both contexts of the software named SQL Server Analysis … Continue reading OLAP is Back as Kyvos Insights →

Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status

Everything we do towards achieving goals involves costs - sacrifice, investment (a positive way to look at it). We purposefully put things we already have (time, money, our career) to be consumed or at risk in the hope of achieving a goal. For the sake of this short blog, I'll call that investment "pain". I present this blog … Continue reading Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status →

The Magic of the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Prelude If businesses were people, they would lumber about in a vaguely purposeful manner like zombies. That's due to the top-down, military-style hierarchies of modern corporations that result in integration of information only at the top and only to a limited extent below. Imagine Gepetto the CEO (external puppet master) of Pinocchio. Pinocchio is managed through strings from … Continue reading The Magic of the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts →

The Effect Correlation Score for KPIs

Introduction Everything we do is intended to move us towards achieving some set of goals ranging from just satisfying our immediate hunger to achieving a revolution. These actions are executed within a strategy (or hierarchies of strategies) to varying extents of sensibility and organization. Presumably the effectiveness of our efforts towards those goals and the rhyme and reason behind … Continue reading The Effect Correlation Score for KPIs →

Cluster Drift

A deficiency I notice in practically every implementation of clustering (segmentation) is the snapshot mentality. For example, a vendor of a product would segment their customers in an attempt to isolate the ones who would be most likely to buy their product. This captures a snapshot of the groups of similar customers right now, but it doesn't … Continue reading Cluster Drift →