Times.. they are changing.

Looks like traditional data warehousing will soon be taken over by a sea of changes.

(Click on underlined words to open the links)

Integration of OLTP with DW? Read about it here.

Here is a discussion on new approaches in DW.

If you want to know Werner’s opinion on the future of Business Objects Data Integrator (BODI), see here.

Appears like BO Data quality + BO Data Integrator = BO Data Services. A discussion on it here.

And is Informatica the next acquisition target? Some say maybe… some say no.

Informatica Velocity

If you are an Informatica developer, you shouldnt miss this.

Pls visit http://my.informatica.com/ and register with your office IDs. Pls wait for an approval mail, reply to it. Then you can start using it.

(Your company needs to be a partner or client for the registration)

Then click on Velocity. You will find a lot of Best Build Logic, best practises documents, sample deliverables, tips and techniques,etc.

In addition to it, the site also has quite a few templates and documents, Advanced Mapping Concepts, Transformation Techniques, etc that are very useful.