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The Disconnect Between Data and the Business
May 20, 2025
Key Trends
The Disconnect Between Data and the Business

The strange way data tracking chops up the business into pieces!

The Disconnect Between Data and the Business
Vijay Subramanian
A Financial P&L Is The First Metric Tree!
May 9, 2025
Product
A Financial P&L Is The First Metric Tree!

Examining how the financial P&L statement is a classic metric tree!

A Financial P&L Is The First Metric Tree!
Vijay Subramanian
Principles in Serving Data Consumers vs Producers
Apr 29, 2025
Key Trends
Principles in Serving Data Consumers vs Producers

Examining the key principles building for data consumers versus producers

Principles in Serving Data Consumers vs Producers
Vijay Subramanian
Metric Trees as an Evolution of Kimball's Modeling
Apr 16, 2025
Key Trends
Metric Trees as an Evolution of Kimball's Modeling

Exploring metric trees as the next modeling layer, as intuitive as Kimball's

Metric Trees as an Evolution of Kimball's Modeling
Vijay Subramanian
The Fragmentation of Data Assets
Mar 27, 2025
Key Trends
The Fragmentation of Data Assets

Exploring why data fragmentation feels natural and how to arrest it

The Fragmentation of Data Assets
Vijay Subramanian
Metrics Catalog vs Metric Layers vs Metric Trees
Mar 13, 2025
Key Trends
Metrics Catalog vs Metric Layers vs Metric Trees

The key differences between metric catalogs, layers and trees

Metrics Catalog vs Metric Layers vs Metric Trees
Vijay Subramanian
Data's Role in Ideation vs Operation
Mar 4, 2025
Data Culture
Data's Role in Ideation vs Operation

Formalizing the eternal debate on data-driven versus using judgement

Data's Role in Ideation vs Operation
Vijay Subramanian
Two Distinct Personas in Last Mile Data Consumption
Feb 26, 2025
General
Two Distinct Personas in Last Mile Data Consumption

Addressing the needs for the two distinct personas who consume data

Two Distinct Personas in Last Mile Data Consumption
Vijay Subramanian
BI Tools as Interfaces for Exports?
Feb 11, 2025
Key Trends
BI Tools as Interfaces for Exports?

Why BI tools are becoming UIs for exporting datasets

BI Tools as Interfaces for Exports?
Vijay Subramanian
Data as a "Digital Twin" of the Business
Jan 21, 2025
Key Trends
Data as a "Digital Twin" of the Business

How metric trees can map a digital twin of the business process

Data as a "Digital Twin" of the Business
Vijay Subramanian