Jay Foulkrod is president and principal of Foulkrod Enterprises, LLC, a  firm that provides training and catalytic consulting for Value-Driven Data Warehousing, a hybrid of activity-based costing and dimensional design that forms the content foundation for corporate performance management. Foulkrod has built, supported and decommissioned enterprise data warehouse and BI solutions for large clients up and down the consumer/industrial goods value chain (manufacturing, distribution and retail), including construction of an activity-based costing/EDW hybrid that is possibly one of the largest, most sophisticated ABC/OLAP implementations in operation anywhere. He welcomes your feedback and can be reached at Jay.Foulkrod@FoulkrodEnterprises.com.

CPM Information Bedrock, Part 4 – Pulling the Pieces Together
November 29, 2007 At last, I attack the root question to which the prior three installments in this series have been leading: how do you...

CPM Information Bedrock, Part 3 - Critical Construction Criteria
September 28, 2007

CPM Information Bedrock, Part 2 - CPM Decomposed
August 23, 2007

CPM Information Bedrock, Part 1: CPM Defined
July 26, 2007

The Data Warehouse Content Gap, Part 4: The ABC/EDW Hybrid
June 22, 2007 Part 4 discusses the merging of activity-based costing and enterprise data warehousing systems.

The Data Warehouse Content Gap, Part 3: How ABC Benefits the Business
June 15, 2007 This article discusses how much value the activity-based costing system delivers and how it enables the enterprise to capture...

The Data Warehouse Content Gap, Part 2: What is ABC and How Does it Function?
June 8, 2007 This article explores a solution to the EDW content gap: the discipline known as activity-based costing.

The Data Warehouse Content Gap, Part 1
June 1, 2007 The information engineer and the businessman need to have common agreement on the purpose of the enterprise data warehouse....

The DW/BI Domain Functionally Broken Down
May 24, 2007

Interpreting Industry Currents - Promise or Problems?
April 26, 2007