The fundamental purpose of the FSDM is to provide an enterprise-wide view of data common to all financial services organizations. Organizations can leverage on FSDM in order to establish a common reference data dictionary across the enterprise which would benefit in lower cost in data integration and effective information delivery.

The IBM Information Framework is a family of data, process and object models that can be used as a backbone of business intelligence solutions across various industries. This article considers in brief, appliance of IBM IFW models in banking, telecoms and retail industries.

In the last few years Microsoft put a heavy investment in Business Intelligence area. SQL Server as a backbone as well Share Point Portal and Microsoft Office as a front end pillars, composed in one multitier, highly integrated and powerful development platform (also known as “Microsoft BI stack”), promote Microsoft as highly respectable BI platform provider. Let’s see how you can utilize Microsoft BI platform to build a complete data warehouse solution.

How to manage several IBM IFW BDW implementations at the same time?

IBM BDW Hands On series of articles givesyyou practical experience for certain aspects of IBM BDW implementation.

After you making decision about implementation of the data warehouse within the organization, one of the first things you should consider is data model. Data model is foundation for data warehouse, and have crucial impact on solution flexibility, usability, efficiency and effectives. That is the reality you should carefully consider before you decide what you will do: take one model form the market, develop model in-house, etc. IBM IFW Data Warehouse model is de facto industry standard - major banks in the world using this model as a foundation of their data warehouse solution. Let’s find out why…