Michael Haisten, vice president of business intelligence at Daman Consulting, is considered one of a handful of visionaries who have helped shape the data management industry. He has accrued more than 22 years of leadership in information management and architecture development. Haisten served as chief information architect at Apple Computer Corporation, where he developed the data warehouse management team. He has been chief architect, designer and technical expert for more than 72 data warehouse and decision support projects. In addition, Haisten is the author of Data Access Architecture Guide and Data Warehouse Master Plan and has published extensively on data warehouse planning, data access facilitation and other key aspects of data warehousing. You can contact him at dmr@damanconsulting.com.

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 10: Seeking the Highest Value
September 13, 2002 The essence of usage-driven design is to remain vigilant about business impact. Effective architecture is needs-driven, and...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 9: Know Your Consumers
August 16, 2002 Part 9 explains the information supply chain, describes different categories of consumers and spells out the...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 8: Packaged Analytics
August 2, 2002 This is a must-read article defining packaged analytics and explaining the different types of applications available,...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 7: Advance Your Analytic Power
June 21, 2002 Our data warehouse teams often are not directly involved with the usage of the data we collect. We buy, support and provide...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 6: Architectural Principles
June 14, 2002 Every installment of the Data Warehousing: What’s Next? series builds on prior articles. Part 6 of this continuing series...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 5: Increase Your Architectural Flexibility
June 7, 2002 This installment explores the options for a more diverse and flexible architecture to provide cross-functionality and...

The Road to Recovery
June 1, 2002 Now is the time for IT groups to construct a reality-based mission with concrete planning, providing the unified view of the...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next? Part 4
May 31, 2002 The general topic of the series is reaping the rewards of your existing data warehouse investment. Part 4 takes a look at...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next, Part 3
May 24, 2002 The general topic of the first three articles in this series is reaping the rewards of your existing data warehouse...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next?, Part 2
May 17, 2002 The first step to grow and enhance your data warehousing environment is to gather the support of your existing install...

Data Warehousing: What’s Next?
May 10, 2002 This is the first of a series of articles that will discuss the next phase of data warehouse evolution and will propose...

Is Data Warehousing Dead?
October 8, 2001

What is Real Time about Real-Time Data Warehousing?
August 11, 2000

Putting the E in E-BI
June 8, 2000

Portals and Closed-Loop Analysis in a Real-Time Environment
May 11, 2000

Real-Time Data Warehouse
February 11, 2000 This article is the second in a two-part series that focuses on the important features that need to be found in all enterprise...

Critical Characteristics of Enterprise Portals, Part 1
February 10, 2000

Data Warehousing, Enterprise Portals and the Information Supply Chain
November 12, 1999

Real-Time Data Warehousing Defined
October 8, 1999

Data Warehousing in the Insurance Industry
October 1, 1999 The opportunity areas for insurance companies that implement a data warehouse are many - from new products and services to...

The Next Stage in Data Warehouse Evolution, part 3
September 10, 1999

The Next Stage in Data Warehouse Evolution, part 2
August 5, 1999

The Next Stage in Data Warehouse Evolution, part 1
June 15, 1999