Articles written by Cuan Gibson

WHAT’S ALL THE HYPE AROUND HANA?

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By Cuan Gibson | 23rd January, 2012 | Business Analytics

A number of my clients have recently asked me about HANA and what it means to their existing data warehouse landscape and BI strategy; and if this technology is relevant for them. In order to answer these questions, two example scenarios may help to explain the options and benefits available to those thinking about deploying HANA.

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The relevance of a layered data warehouse design approach…

Leaning Tower of Pisa

By Cuan Gibson | 11th February, 2011 | Business Analytics

The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has been around for a number of years and was arguably the brainchild of Bill Inmon. The Layered Scalable Architecture is the reference architecture based on these principles for SAP BW and has been generally adopted as the ‘best practice’ approach for building large scale BW data warehouses.

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