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Volume 2, Issue 2 - April 2008

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  • Richard Tanler: Excelosaurus - Threatened by a Cloud?   

    Data warehousing practitioners have long stressed the importance of managing enterprise data assets, pointing out that data warehouses ensure data security, accuracy, consistency and transparency. Of course, these data assets have value only when they leave the protected confines of the data warehouse to be used in decision-making applications.

  • Terrence Carter: Why SOA is Not the Answer to IT’s Problem   

    Some of the common problems that IT (information techonlogy) departments face today are: project failure, time-to-market for application development and implementation, redundant data and processes, amount of rework and research time needed to fully develop a concept into reality, and staff turnover.

  • Karthikeyan Sankaran (Karthik): Function Points Based Estimation Model for Data Warehouses   

    Data warehousing applications differ from the traditional application development in the way that they are predominantly subject oriented rather than process oriented and have an analytic centric focus rather than a transaction centric focus.

  • Waffa Karkukly: Global PMO Implementation – Part III   

    This article is Part III of a multi-part series on the development of a Global Project Management Office (PMO) implementation. Part I covered requirements of creating a PMO and the steps needed for a successful PMO. This part also addressed a breakdown of the elements and processes which constitute the many components of a PMO.

  • Deborah Henderson: DAMA-DMBOK: The Mosaic of Efforts That is the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge: an Update   

    In the practice of data management in industry we are moving towards articulating our best practices in order to create standard practices in our organizations. In the midst of this movement, we have the DAMA-DMBOK that is affecting industry, even in its initial Framework format, sponsored by DAMA International. But how do we measure its effectiveness and promote its discussion and use?

Letter From the Editor

April, 2008

Once again, Real-World Decision Support hosts a variety of excellent articles on various topics in information management, data warehousing/decision support and business intelligence.

As Editor-in-Chief, I have one key objective: to build a loyal base of readers, reviewers and contributors who share a commitment to ensuring that RWDS makes a genuine and substantial contribution to professional practice, education, and research in data management and decision support. Our measure of success will be for RWDS to become a leading journal in which professionals and academics of all levels are proud to publish their work, and a publication that all data management professionals read regularly.

We have launched a wider call for papers to attract a more diverse set of authors but that will not prevent regular contributors to RWDS from having their material selected to appear. If you are an author, either professional or academic, or if you would like to start building your writing portfolio, please contact us. If you have colleagues who would be interested in writing for RWDS, please have them contact me as well.

Sincerely,

Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Real-World Decision Support

 

Calling All Writers

Real-World Decision Support is an electronic journal dedicated to providing informative, vendor-neutral, real-world solutions to the challenges of implementing decision support / data warehousing systems, meta data management, business analysis, information management and governance initiatives.

The journal is published January 1, April 1, July 1 and September 1 – submissions are due on the 1st of the month preceding the publication date, to allow for the review and editing processes to be completed. Guidelines for authors and topics can be found at www.realworlddecisionsupport.com

So if you have something to say that applies to the world of decision support, data warehousing and business intelligence, data modeling, meta data management and governance, project management, or business analysis, contact Anne Marie Smith.

If we accept your submission, you will receive a byline including a short biography and access to one of the largest information management audiences (over 28,000 readers). Articles are peer-reviewed and are expected to appeal to information management professionals and academics.

We can't guarantee we'll publish every submission, but we promise to consider every contribution.

Finally, please visit www.realworddecisionsupport.com to review past issues of RWDS, to register to receive future issues, and to explore the white papers and other materials that may be of interest.

Sincerely,

Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Real-World Decision Support