Alec Sharp on Packaged Software and Data Modeling

At the twelfth Data Warehousing & BI Summit, that took place at April 2nd in Utrecht, Alec Sharp presented his session Packaged Software and Data Modeling, where he shared the surprising reasons packaged software selection and implementation often go disastrously wrong, and how to avoid them. Moreover, what important role data modeling techniques can play in helping to resolve problems.

In this interview with BI-Platform, Alec Sharp elaborates on the role of data modeling in the implementation of packaged software solutions. Alec Sharp is an internationally acclaimed consultant and instructor on Data Modelling and owner of Clariteq Systems Consulting.

00:00 Introduction
00:17 What should be the role of data modeling in the implementation of packaged software solutions?
03:10 When implementing packaged software, how do you decide when to customise the package to make it fit your organisation's processes OR adapt your organisation's processes to align with the package?
05:00 In your session you discuss some modeling patterns that can make a huge difference in implementing packaged software, can you give one example?
07:50 Why is the "data-process connection" so essential for successful packaged software implementation? 
9.00 In your experience, what other factors outside data modeling contribute most significantly to packaged software implementation failures?

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The data modelling related workshops that Adept Events runs with Alec Sharp are listed on this page.