Comments on: Broaden your horizons http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/broaden-your-horizons/ Andy Hayler, founder of Kalido and The Information Difference, gives his views on the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and data quality. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: JoshG http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/broaden-your-horizons/#comment-56 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:14:00 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/broaden-your-horizons/#comment-56 Andy Hayler (a big who?? where I come from too) seems to think I don’t know what an ODS is. Fair enough – he needed some gimmick to spice up his otherwise inconsequential argument. No one who has been in this industry for 30 minutes would confuse the difference between an ODS and a data warehouse. There are definitely things you can do with one that you can’t do with the other, and vice versa. What is little harder is to acknowledge that the track record of data warehouses is abysmal – much worse than IT projects in general, and considering their relative cost, orders of magnitude worse than ODS projects. The point I was trying to make is that many customers have been seduced into massive data warehouse projects that yielded nothing, when much of the analysis they really needed could have been done using a relatively simple ODS working with transaction data. The rest of this blog – the ad hominem attacks on my career and my opinions and the non sequitors about SAP – really show Andy to be more silly than informative. Maybe he should hold back on pressing that post button until he has something useful and interesting to say. Andy Hayler (a big who?? where I come from too) seems to think I don’t know what an ODS is. Fair enough – he needed some gimmick to spice up his otherwise inconsequential argument. No one who has been in this industry for 30 minutes would confuse the difference between an ODS and a data warehouse. There are definitely things you can do with one that you can’t do with the other, and vice versa. What is little harder is to acknowledge that the track record of data warehouses is abysmal – much worse than IT projects in general, and considering their relative cost, orders of magnitude worse than ODS projects. The point I was trying to make is that many customers have been seduced into massive data warehouse projects that yielded nothing, when much of the analysis they really needed could have been done using a relatively simple ODS working with transaction data.

The rest of this blog – the ad hominem attacks on my career and my opinions and the non sequitors about SAP – really show Andy to be more silly than informative. Maybe he should hold back on pressing that post button until he has something useful and interesting to say.

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