Understanding the supporting services
Regardless of the size you are planning for, some services might catch your attention anyway. This section will give you an overview of the supporting services that you might need in your modern data warehouse approach.
Requiring data governance
When you start building your modern data warehouse, there is one thing that you need to get right: data governance! There are too many data lakes out there that have mutated into data swamps, and you'll find so many Data Warehouses that have lost any credibility because their users can't find the right data or are only able to find outdated information. The relationship between these data sources might not be clear to self-service BI users if they produce the wrong figures. Plus, dimension data, which describes the measures that you want to report on, might not be up to date or might rely on the wrong sources. Alternatively, your users might not be able to recognize the date and time of...