Contributor: Mike Shiff
Michael A. Schiff is founder and principal analyst of MAS Strategies, which specializes in formulating effective data warehousing strategies. With more than four decades of industry experience as a developer, user, consultant, vendor, and industry analyst, Mike is an expert in developing, marketing, and implementing solutions that transform operational data into useful decision-enabling information.
His prior experience as an IT director and systems and programming manager provide him with a thorough understanding of the technical, business, and political issues that must be addressed for any successful implementation. With Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management and as a certified financial planner, Mike can address both the technical and financial aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence.
All articles by Mike Schiff
Be agile in more than just your development projects or prototypes. We offer 11 tools and techniques to help you build an agile data warehouse environment.
- By Mike Schiff
- September 30, 2014
In an effort to protect their privacy, consumers may be providing merchants with inaccurate data.
- By Mike Schiff
- July 15, 2014
There's much to be gained by taking proactive steps to become more than just the "IT" person -- for the organization and the IT professional.
- By Mike Schiff
- May 20, 2014
Problems with the Affordable Care Act website rollout offers lessons that BI professionals can apply to their own project implementations. We offer 10 best practices to help you avoid such problems in your own environment.
- By Mike Schiff
- March 11, 2014
Analyst Mike Schiff looks back at the accuracy of his 2013 predictions and offers a short list of trends to watch in 2014.
- By Mike Schiff
- December 17, 2013
The traditional relational database is not the only answer to every database application. It's time to gain experience with non-relational (and non-legacy) NoSQL and NewSQL database technologies.
- By Mike Schiff
- November 12, 2013
Protecting your data and ensuring that no data is lost isn't as simple as just making an extra copy, even if storage costs have dropped significantly. We examine key considerations for any data archival/retrieval plan.
- By Mike Schiff
- September 17, 2013
Why enterprises must have contingency plans for their data before moving to the cloud.
- By Mike Schiff
- August 6, 2013