The Data Warrior

Live from the 1st Annual World Wide Data Vault Consortium: Day 1

It has been an amazing and historical day in chilly St Albans, Vermont on this first day of Spring.

In a little hotel on the edge of a little town is a gathering of some of the brightest minds in the world of data vault. They have come from around the USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, and Norway.

Given the location and distance to get here, these are some dedicated folks intent on being the best they can be at their chosen profession.

Like any great user group meeting there was a keynote, user sessions, and lots of networking.

Look at #WWDVC to get the details of all the action for the day. Below I will provide a few pictures to highlight the day.

Dan Linstedt opens the 1st Annual World Wide Data Vault Consortium

As part of his keynote Dan gave us some highlights from Data Vault 2.0.

DV 2.0 is a complete system for developing an enterprise DW/BI solution

Part of DV 2.0 is the methodology has officially adopted an agile approach

Of course there were some announcements …

Dan had a lot of partnerships to announce

Next we heard from Dan’s business partner Sanjay about how  DV 2.0 works with “big data.”

Sanjay talks about using Hadoop and NoSQL with Data Vault 2.0

In DV 2.0 it is possible to have satellites reside on Hadoop

In DV 2.0 using hashed keys allows linking to data in a NoSQL db

After a great networking session and a good lunch I gave a 2 hour session on using standards for data modeling (with a few side rants and lots of Q&A).

#WWDVC @KentGraziano starts his presentation “How I save my clients $$$” pic.twitter.com/5zbuuMelZ8

— Dirk Lerner (@DV_Modeling) March 20, 2014

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Staring my talk about saving $$$ by using standards

Next we had a great Skype session with Bill Inmon with lots of Q&A.

And finally we had a talk from my friend Rafael about generating data vaults using WhereScape.

Raphael from WhereScape shows us Data Vault automation

Well, that’s it for now. More tomorrow.

Join us on twitter to follow all the action live. (click the links to go right to Day 2 and Day 3 posts)

Kent