Contributor: Mike Shiff
Michael A. Schiff is founder and principal analyst of MAS Strategies, which specializes in formulating effective data warehousing strategies. With more than four decades of industry experience as a developer, user, consultant, vendor, and industry analyst, Mike is an expert in developing, marketing, and implementing solutions that transform operational data into useful decision-enabling information.
His prior experience as an IT director and systems and programming manager provide him with a thorough understanding of the technical, business, and political issues that must be addressed for any successful implementation. With Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management and as a certified financial planner, Mike can address both the technical and financial aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence.
All articles by Mike Schiff
Can't analyze your data now? We explain why it's worth the time and effort to archive your data anyway.
- By Mike Schiff
- July 10, 2012
Why are vendors doing things that their own products and technology were designed to prevent or correct?
- By Mike Schiff
- June 5, 2012
Technology changes are helping us analyze growing data volumes. Our data warehousing architecture must remain flexible, and frequent validation of user requirements and data usage will help us achieve this goal.
- By Mike Schiff
- April 10, 2012
What's behind the increasing popularity of data mining, and what is its relationship to predictive analytics?
- By Mike Schiff
- March 6, 2012
We look at the 10 key details your data strategy must address and suggest a good place to start formulating your strategy.
- By Mike Schiff
- January 17, 2012
How well did analyst Mike Schiff predict DW trends for 2011, and what's in store for next year?
- By Mike Schiff
- December 13, 2011
As 2010 draws to a close, it’s time to once again review some of the major events of the year and speculate on what might occur in 2011.
- By Mike Schiff
- December 15, 2010
To create an agile environment, organizations must make it easier to deploy analysis tools and to quickly enhance their underlying data warehousing infrastructure. We explain some of the technologies and techniques that can help you make this happen.
- By Mike Schiff
- June 3, 2010