Rick Sherman has more than 20 years of business intelligence and data warehousing experience, having worked on more than 50 implementations as a director/practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers and while managing his own firm. He is the founder of Athena IT Solutions, a Boston-based consulting firm that provides data warehouse and business intelligence consulting, training and vendor services. Sherman is a published author of over 50 articles, an industry speaker, a DM Review World Class Solution Awards judge, a data management expert at searchdatamanagement.com and has been quoted in CFO and Business Week. Sherman can be found blogging on performance management, data warehouse and business intelligence topics at The Data Doghouse.You can reach him at rsherman@athena-solutions.com or (617) 835-0546.

In addition to teaching at industry conferences, Sherman offers on-site data warehouse/business intelligence training, which can be customized and teaches public courses in the Boston area. He also teaches data warehousing at Northeastern University 's graduate school of engineering.

Beyond ETL and Data Warehousing
February 18, 2009 Data integration suffers from an image problem - it has become synonymous with extract, transform and load

Data Integration: All Together Now
February 10, 2009 It is time to move away from accidental data integration and make it deliberate

Back to the Basics of Data Warehousing
September 22, 2008 Approaches, methods and techniques from the early days of data warehousing are still applicable today

Too Narrowly Focused
July 23, 2008 The flip side of cloning the source systems is cloning the tables or files used to generate reports or perform analysis. This...

Don’t Stop at How, Learn Why
May 20, 2008 People involved in BI and DW projects are very familiar with terms such as facts, dimensions, attributes, surrogate keys and...

Data Integration Will Break Out of the Silo: BI and DW Trends, 8 for ’08
May 28, 2008 How’s this for irony? A lot of integration projects create more silos!

Recovering from the Accidental Architecture
April 14, 2008 Business and IT need to confront the accidental architecture addiction and resolve to work without finger-pointing.

The Accidental Architecture
March 18, 2008 Like the unfortunate house, many data warehouses are built without an architectural blueprint.

The Song Remains the Same - Data Shadows Systems Continue to be Pervasive for Reporting and Analytics: BI and DW Trends, 8 for ’08
April 25, 2008 BI may not be pervasive, but spreadsheets are.

Dazed and Confused - Product Roadmaps, Upgrades and Migrations: BI and DW Trends, 8 for ’08
March 27, 2008 Dazed and confused - such is the fate of the customers of Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion as their respective acquirers...