Sid Adelman is a principal in Sid Adelman & Associates, an organization specializing in planning and implementing data warehouses, in data warehouse and BI assessments, and in establishing effective data architectures and strategies. He is a regular speaker at DW conferences. Adelman chairs the "Ask the Experts" column on www.dmreview.com. He is a frequent contributor to journals that focus on data warehousing. He co-authored Data Warehouse Project Management and is the principal author on Impossible Data Warehouse Situations with Solutions from the Experts and Data Strategy. He can be reached at (818) 783-9634 or visit his Web site at www.sidadelman.com.

Without a Data Governance Strategy
February 21, 2008 Without a DGS, your organization is clearly in trouble. You may have addressed one or two of the components of a DGS, but...

Strategy Components
January 3, 2008 In this column, I’ll attempt to lay out the primary components of a data governance strategy and give you a starter kit...

What are the different metrics to consider when we want to charge a project for the sever resources usage?
October 1, 2007

Please give some suggestions to prepare an estimation effort for our ETL process.
October 1, 2007

How important is data reconciliation for an ETL application?
October 1, 2007

How can one show intermediate deliverables/results to the business uses/sponsors?
October 1, 2007

Do you know where/how I can estimate high-level prices for each of the BI tool vendors?
August 1, 2007

How do you decide on the roles and responsibilities of operational or analytical reporting teams?
August 1, 2007

Which would be a better choice of classes for career growth in data warehousing - ETL architecture or dimensional modeling?
August 1, 2007

How much time is needed to clean the master data and get it on track?
July 2, 2007