Datahüst! was conceived as a response to my many years in the IT trenches.

 

As a veteran of numerous system implementations, integrations, version upgrades, data migrations and data warehouse projects I’ve observed more than my share of frustration and emotional distress caused by unmet requirements, unanticipated problems and unrealistic expectations.

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Each difficult project comes with its own unique combination of challenges. However, all difficult projects seem to share at least one challenge in common. The data.

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It is an unfortunate fact than many companies simply don’t know their data. They don’t know what state it is in, how it is formatted, how it is defined, how it is transformed and many times even where it is.

 

When they do know the data is in a bad state, they can’t seem to muster the corporate will to make the situation significantly better.

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As we enter the era of artificial intelligence, the internet of things, advanced analytics, and increased regulatory scrutiny, how are these organizations going to thrive when data is the most critical element of these historic changes?

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Facing this, Datahüst! is a resource for people and organizations that want to take their data seriously and treat it as the tangible and strategic asset that it is.

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Ideally this will make the lives of data analysts, ETL developers, database administrators, data managers and data scientists much less focused on fixing problems with their data.

 

The goal is to set them free to focus on what is most important: leveraging data to make their organizations thrive, fulfill their missions and realize their potential.

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I invite you to join me in this effort. Let me know how I can improve Datahüst! to make it the best possible resource for you and your organization.