Anne Marie Smith is a highly acclaimed author and speaker in the fields of data stewardship, data governance, data warehousing, data modeling and metadata management. She holds a doctorate in Management Information Systems and has taught at LaSalle University. Smith serves on the board of directors of DAMA International and is an expert advisor to DM Review's Ask the Experts. Smith is the director of education at EWSolutions, a GSA schedule partner and systems integrator dedicated to providing companies and government agencies with best-in-class business intelligence solutions using data warehousing, enterprise architecture and managed metadata environment technologies (www.EWSolutions.com). She may be reached directly via email at AMSmith@EWSolutions.com.

Can you take a small representative database from any organization and convert it into a data warehouse?
December 7, 2006

Do you think a company is inefficient if they have more than 20 KPIs?
December 7, 2006

What is the role of an enterprise data architect?
December 7, 2006

Is there a defined practical methodology that is helpful in implementing a data warehouse?
December 6, 2006

What are the major components of a data management strategy?
December 6, 2006

Understanding Data Governance and Stewardship, Part 3
November 1, 2006

What is the purpose and role of dimensional modeling during data warehouse development process?
October 2, 2006

What is the best way to test a data warehouse?
October 2, 2006

Do you see service-oriented architecture reducing the need for the data warehouse?
October 2, 2006

How is an information warehouse project different than a typical project for a transaction system?
October 2, 2006

Understanding Data Governance and Stewardship, Part 2
October 1, 2006

Ask the Experts
September 8, 2006 Assuming that there's a data governance organization already in place, the question arises: how can one measure the quality of...

Understanding Data Governance and Stewardship, Part 1
September 1, 2006

Ask the Experts
August 25, 2006 A sample of questions that our panel of experts receives and responds to.

Ask the Experts
August 11, 2006 The Ask the Experts panel is an ongoing feature on DMReview.com. Check out the archive of questions asked and answered.

How can one measure the quality of data - both on master data and transactional data?
August 1, 2006

Are there any good resources to assist in writing a business case for a customer data integration project or data warehousing project?
August 1, 2006

What is the relationship between the data warehouse and the enterprise resource planning system?
June 13, 2006

Should the size of a company affect the need for a decision support system, a data warehouse, and an expert system to improve its sales figures and profitability?
June 13, 2006

Can you help me with some resources to prepare a standard approach for requirements definition and analysis for BI projects?
June 13, 2006

Ask the Experts
May 26, 2006 What is the current state of data warehousing and data mining?

Ask the Experts
May 19, 2006 Should knowledge made available through the use of data warehouses be disseminated to all employees in the organization?

Please provide a role-description for a generic power user and his business counterpart.
May 11, 2006

Do you feel that knowledge made available through the use of data warehouses should be disseminated to all employees in the organization?
May 11, 2006

What makes business intelligence different from business espionage, and what makes BI intelligent?
May 11, 2006

Ask the Experts
April 28, 2006 Ask the Experts is a regular feature on DMReview.com. This is an example of the types of questions a panel of experts answers.

Would you suggest recovery strategies in data warehousing while loading high volumes of data?
April 10, 2006

What kinds of data warehouse processes would be good for outsourcing?
April 10, 2006

What is the current state of data warehousing and data mining?
April 10, 2006

How to Learn Data Modeling
April 1, 1999 A multi-disciplined approach offers the best opportunity for a successful data modeling career and includes using the power...