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
Standards are desirable and beneficial, but don't let them become so restrictive that they discourage the investigation of new technologies.
- By Mike Schiff
- April 22, 2010
Organizations must recognize that their data warehouses can be populated for data sources from both inside and outside their enterprise.
- By Mike Schiff
- March 11, 2010
A data warehousing analyst examines the accuracy of his 2009 predictions and reveals the top trends he sees coming next year.
- By Mike Schiff
- December 16, 2009
The goal of EIM is to help locate and transform an organization’s data into meaningful information while managing its distribution so everyone can perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively. The key to success: search capabilities.
- By Mike Schiff
- December 2, 2009
Building a data model reveals insight into your organization's data for users and IT alike, but it won't happen unless both groups work as a team.
- By Mike Schiff
- October 21, 2009
Oracle will also now own or control the future direction of the MySQL database, the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, and the StarOffice user productivity suite.
- By Mike Schiff
- May 1, 2009
Providing transparency into the economic stimulus spending will require the best BI has to offer.
- By Mike Schiff
- April 1, 2009
How software-as-a-service relates to cloud computing.
- By Mike Schiff
- March 4, 2009