Where Are The Failed Data Warehousing Projects?
The signal-to-noise ratio in the data warehousing market is the lowest it has ever been. As more and more vendors enter the marketplace, as more and more professional conference-making companies create more and more professional conferences, as the number of articles that cross our desks each week climbs and climbs, I cant help feeling that we are missing something in the loud and often pointless public discourse on data warehousing: something fairly important. Where are the failed data warehousing projects? I believe — although I have only my own experience as a consultant, and quiet talk with some of my peers, to support this belief — that the data warehousing marketplace woefully underreports both actual cases of failed data warehouse projects, and normative and prescriptive information for warehousing practitioners on techniques for avoiding project failure. Why actual cases of failure are underreported will be obvious to anyone whos ever written or approved a capital appropriati
