by Dan Galavan | Jan 27, 2026 | AI, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Snowflake
Introduction: Semantic Layers are not new. I first used them back in the noughties. I’ve designed, configured, and led their delivery in a variety of analytical solution initiatives, not least Enterprise Data Warehousing. I’ve worked with numerous Semantic Layer...
by Dan Galavan | Jan 22, 2024 | Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Lake, Data Modeling, Data Vault, Snowflake Data Cloud
Data modeling is a key component of any analytical or operational data processing initiative. It’s critical to how data is both processed and governed in areas such as gaining data insights, data quality management, and data literacy. The most succinct description of...
by Dan Galavan | May 6, 2022 | Blog, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Data Vault, Data Warehouse, Snowflake Data Cloud
World Wide Data Vault Consortium delivering SqlDBM Hands-on-Lab At this years World Wide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) I will deliver the following: Hands-On Lab: Cloud based Data Modeling with SqlDBM In this technical session we will demonstrate the cloud-based data...
by Dan Galavan | Feb 7, 2022 | Analytics, Blog, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Data Warehouse, Open Data, Secure Data Sharing, Snowflake, Snowflake Cloud Data Platform, Snowflake Data Cloud, Snowflake Data Marketplace, Snowflake Data Sharing, The Third Wave of Open Data
Data sharing including cloud-based data marketplaces are appearing at a growing rate to match data consumers with the right data suppliers. Data sharing has a long history in academic, research, and public policy circles. In more recent years it has made enormous...
by Dan Galavan | Dec 7, 2021 | Analytics, Blog, Data Governance, Data Integration, Open Data, Secure Data Sharing, Snowflake Data Cloud, Snowflake Data Marketplace, Snowflake Data Sharing, The Third Wave of Open Data
“Organizations cannot just pump out data for the sake of data and hope that maybe someone will find it”- Jaimie Boyd, Chief Digital Officer for the government of British Columbia during the Summer of Open Data. The Summer of Open Data, which took place in 2020,...
by Dan Galavan | Sep 21, 2021 | Analytics, Blog, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Mesh, Data Modeling, Data Warehouse
Are you excited / on the fence / downright sceptical about a data mesh? Not long after a new buzzword makes the mainstream, a train of hype often follows 🚇. How do we decode the top notch promotion vs. the value vs. the pitfalls? As Bill Inmon said in his note...
