Barry Devlin

Cloud. Data. Warehousing. The mythos conjured by three simple words has taken marketing to new levels of hyperbole. Cloud data warehousing, together with AI (of course) will change all business decision making and action taking. In addition to the expected cloud data warehouse model, three new delivery patterns have been spawned: data lakehouse, fabric, and mesh. However, as seen in Volume I of this series, the conceptual and logical architectures change only minimally as we move from on premises to the cloud. So, why these very different solutions? In Volume II, Dr. Barry Devlin-a founder of data warehousing-offers a framework of architectural design patterns (ADPs) to allow implementers to easily compare and contrast these different, proposed solutions. To evaluate their pros and cons according to a common model and in consistent terms. To choose an approach best suited to particular business needs and specific technical starting points. And looking to the behemoth of AI bearing down upon us, Barry proposes a set of conceptual models that allow possible answers to the foundational questions: In a world of burgeoning data and information, how do we really make decisions and should we entrust them to AI built upon cloud data warehousing?

Horslips: arguably the greatest band in Irish rock music history. This five-piece band produced truly special, unique music in the 1970s. By joining literary craft and their cultural heritage with a fusion of traditionally inspired music with rock instrumentation, they created a genre of music which became known as 'Celtic Rock'. Horslips also pioneered an 'in-house' approach to the rock music business, controlling their stage presentation, graphic design, record pressing and concert promotion. Their finest albums - The Tain, and The Book Of Invasions - adapted legendary and historic texts with compelling music. Elsewhere the life and times of Turlough O'Carolan, the famine and emigration provided a conceptual backdrop to Dancehall Sweethearts, Aliens, and The Man Who Built America. But the band broke up in 1980. Reconvening in the next century, after the 'longest tea break in history', they produced a new 'acoustic covers' album, played stadium-filling gigs and television performances, and recorded two live albums. This book celebrates (and sometimes criticises) the creative waves that Eamon Carr, Barry Devlin, Johnny Fean, Jim Lockhart, and Charles O'Connor gave us.

Business intelligence (BI) used to be so simple. Integrate and copy data from your transactional systems into a specialized relational database, apply BI reporting and query tools and add business users. No longer. Analytics, big data and an array of diverse technologies have changed everything. More importantly, business is insisting on ever more value, ever faster from information and from IT in general. An emerging biz-tech ecosystem demands that business and IT work together. Business unIntelligence reflects the new reality that in today's socially complex and rapidly changing world, business decisions must be based on a combination of rational and intuitive thinking. Integrating cues from diverse information sources and tacit knowledge, decision makers create unique meaning to innovate heuristically at the speed of thought. This book provides a wealth of new models that business and IT can use together to design support systems for tomorrow's successful organizations.