Project X Discussions

Oracle buys Sunopsis

Oracle has added Sunopsis to their Fusion middlewear line of products.  Congratulations I think.  On the surface this looks good and adds credibility to the already increasing evolution of ELT from ETL.  The question will be whether this is too early in the adoption cycle.

What I am thinking is that would Teradata and Netezza want to promote this product (whether it is good or bad) over other ETL tools when they would be introducing a foothold for a competitive product.  Hummmm.

Ultimately the consumer should win if they can get over that possible issue.  Take IBM and DataStage.  It certainly supports the consolidation effect across the Enterprise software space.  I think Oracle hit a homerun on this product.

Update:  Vincent has a very good post and some good converation started over here

CoffeeCAST - CC#32 - Talking Data Warehousing and Integration

Welcome to the 32nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  Well welcome back.  Today I have captured Graham for another fun discussion on Data Warehousing and Integration.  So I am just finishing a great Starbucks Grande Bold and hope you have found a good coffee yourself for this CoffeeCAST and sit back while Grham and I chat about:

• Discussion on Cars - Environmentally friendly started by MIP's Smartcar (see my pic/post)
• Datawarehouse
  • New Trends - Out from build to Support and Enhance
  • Marts vs Warehouses (logical/physical)
  • Master Data Management
    • Customer Master File (CMF)
    • Customer Information File (CIF)
• Data Integration
  • In the Warehouse vs ETL
  • DataStage and Informatica
  • Teradata
  • ELT (Sunopsis)
  • Moving Data

So as always it was great to grab a chance to talk with Graham.

Download cc_32_warehouses_and_integration.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

Job Opportunities @ Project X

Hello everyone, Project X is going through a growth spurt and are looking for some great people to do awesome things with us and for our clients.  Here are what we are looking for:

• ETL Developers (Intermediate to Senior) - Ascential DataStage, Sunopsis
• BEA Developers (Senior) - Java, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) / Composite Services, DWL Customer Master File Suite (now part of IBM)
• Data Warehouse Developers (Intermediate to Senior) - Netezza, Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata
• Business Analysts (Intermediate to Senior) - Telco, Retail, Financial Service

CoffeeCAST - CC#23 - Working Data Store and ETL

Welcome to the 23rd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  Well it has been a challenging summer trying to keep this fresh with people on holidays and a marketplace that seems to be heating up.

I grabbed Graham Boundy of Project X to join me in today's CoffeeCAST where over the phone we had a great chat.  The new challenge today was my recording software was intermitent.  So I have tried to do some post production editing and mixing.  So please be patient the content is worth the effort.  Today we cover

• Working Data Store
• Material Handling and the Movement of Data
• Deliverables vs Results
• Getting the data into the hands of the consumer (IT or the business)

In today's conversation we mention the following organizations:  Netezza and a case study of theirs, Teradata, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server), SAS and Hudsons Bay, Eagle Systems and Vincent McBurney's POST

Download cc_23_talking_with_graham.mp3

So I hope you have a nice coffee in your hand as I had a lovely dopio espresso long.  Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST - CC#20 - A Year in Review

Welcome to the 20th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  So this CoffeeCAST happens to coincide with Project X's 1st Anniversary.

So as you can imagine, I grabbed Graham, my co-Founder and we decided to sit down and share a view of our year in review.  We focused mainly on our Data practice and not some of our Advisory work as it was the area that we shared in common and we also only had so long.  Today we talk about:

• Getting started over his picnic table
• Working with our first client and now being to five
• Evolution of our Thinking
  • Reference Architecture
  • Guiding Principles
  • Governance and Stewardship
  • Readiness
  • Rapid Results
• General Observations
  • Year of Data
  • Value vs Price
  • Metadata Management
  • Look to faster return on Enterprise platforms
• Working Data Store
• Active Data Warehousing
• Information as a Service

Download cc_20_pxltd_anniversary.mp3

Today we mention a bunch of different folks and companies so I will list them here so you can learn more:  Robert Schaffer, Teradata, Sunopsis, Ipedo, Netezza, Oracle, IBM, Informatica.

So I hope you have a nice coffee, we did.  Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topics.

The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.