Ms. Sherri Canjar This is Me

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1. 1. CASCON 1998 workshop report: Data warehousing and OLAP technologies

   cas.ibm.com/toronto/publicatio - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/1/1999   Last Visited: 9/5/2003

   Sherri Canjar, LGS Group Inc.
   
   Ms. Canjar's talk focussed on the key drivers of today's competitive advantage and how technology supports them. She pointed out that an important aspect of a business strategy is to leverage existing customer and product information in order to deliver strategic information to the right people at the right time and to support changing business needs. Data warehouses and data marts are important tools for exploiting information in an organization. Ms. Canjar pointed out that, if not properly designed, data warehouses can just become part of an information glut that can prevent a business from achieving its goals.
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   One reason given for this by Ms. Canjar was the size of the development effort associated with building an enterprise data warehouse. The lack of success of many of these efforts has led divisions within organizations to build their own data marts. It was concluded that the proliferation of data marts within an organization will lead to a large integration problem down the road if no thought is given to the use of common conceptual models and metadata across the data marts. Ms. Canjar also observed that "people" problems are the main reasons for failures and problems in the development of data warehouses.
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   Sherri Canjar is a consultant in the data warehousing division of LGS Group Inc. Prior to joining LGS she worked for several vendors in the data warehousing and OLAP area including Platinum, MicroStrategy and Informatica. She also served as a Site Team Expert for the Royal Commission Investigating the Blood Supply in Canada.

2. 2. CASCON 1998 workshop report: Data warehousing and OLAP technologies

   www.cas.ibm.com/toronto/public - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/1/1999   Last Visited: 9/25/2003

   Sherri Canjar, LGS Group Inc.
   
   Ms. Canjar's talk focussed on the key drivers of today's competitive advantage and how technology supports them. She pointed out that an important aspect of a business strategy is to leverage existing customer and product information in order to deliver strategic information to the right people at the right time and to support changing business needs. Data warehouses and data marts are important tools for exploiting information in an organization. Ms. Canjar pointed out that, if not properly designed, data warehouses can just become part of an information glut that can prevent a business from achieving its goals.
   ...
   One reason given for this by Ms. Canjar was the size of the development effort associated with building an enterprise data warehouse. The lack of success of many of these efforts has led divisions within organizations to build their own data marts. It was concluded that the proliferation of data marts within an organization will lead to a large integration problem down the road if no thought is given to the use of common conceptual models and metadata across the data marts. Ms. Canjar also observed that "people" problems are the main reasons for failures and problems in the development of data warehouses.
   ...
   Sherri Canjar is a consultant in the data warehousing division of LGS Group Inc. Prior to joining LGS she worked for several vendors in the data warehousing and OLAP area including Platinum, MicroStrategy and Informatica. She also served as a Site Team Expert for the Royal Commission Investigating the Blood Supply in Canada.