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In a movie, the right script makes all the difference between a blockbuster and a box
office disaster. The same holds true for your data warehouse solution.
A good methodology helps ensure quality, consistency and project timeliness. When
incorporating the data warehouse option into a business, hundreds of thousands, if
not millions, of dollars are at stake. The only acceptable outcome is success as
measured at the “box office” or the return on investment (ROI).
This methodology is continually refined with best practices developed with many of
the world's most successful data warehouses.
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The Teradata Solutions Methodology is the product of more than 20 years of
experience incorporating highly successful data warehousing solutions. The phases of
this methodology are depicted in figure 1, below.
Graphically mapped for each unique data warehouse engagement, the Teradata
Solutions Methodology helps Teradata practitioners and their clients visually walk
through task flows and dependencies. Based on the estimated effort the system
identifies for each task, a fully detailed project schedule is developed, including the
“critical path” to ensure the entire project is completed on time. This visual mapping
also helps analyze the risk and impact of not completing some of the tasks.
Codified from more than 1,000 data warehousing projects, this proven approach
includes best practices from some of the world’s most successful data warehousing
implementations—a combination that is hard to beat.
Users must make choices on how to develop their data warehousing projects: forego
the use of any methodology, use a generic implementation methodology or leverage
a data warehousing-specific methodology.
With the use of the Teradata Solutions Methodology, like any good Hollywood movie,
a data warehousing project should have a storybook ending.
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Following are examples of how two companies benefited from Teradata Solutions
Methodology:
Robert (Bob) J. Davis has 24 years experience with NCR/Teradata in sales and services and
leads a team of highly skilled practitioners responsible for the support and continued
enhancement of the Teradata Solutions Metholodology. He can be reached at
robert.davis@teradata-ncr.com.
Paul A. Barsch is the Professional Services Marketing Manager for Teradata. He can be reached
at paul.barsch@teradata-ncr.com.
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