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 | Mar 26, 2024 | Analytics, Data Governance, Data Modeling, Snowflake Data Cloud
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be speaking in person at the 9th annual Data Innovation Summit in Stockholm on 25th April. Billed as “the largest and most influential annual Data and AI event in the Nordics”, conference participants will include enterprise...
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 | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Data Modeling, Snowflake, Snowflake Data Cloud, Uncategorized
One of the many new feature announcements at this year’s Snowflake Summit was Snowflake Unistore Hybrid Tables. The Hybrid Table offering stores data to support fast single-row transactions along with storing the data in columnar format. In other words: The...
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...
