I’m going to catch up on some of my reading from over the summer. The common theme in this entry on the unabated explosion of data, even when it seems that some industries are scaling back.

First, we have a couple of articles from The Economist which IMHO is the world news magazine for nerds :-). From last June’s technology quarterly, we have two articles: "Sensors and Sensitivity" and "The Connected Car".

One of the first areas I explored when considering the long tail’s impact on EDW was the growth in data storage requirements. Supporting the long tail impacts the overall EDW storage requirements in two ways: width (expansion of the data model) and depth (more history). Let us look at one common subject area for all enterprises: Party (customer).

In this blog we ask the question, “How do the Long Tail concept and Black Swan events relate to and impact the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Active Enterprise Intelligence?” This blog will be a discussion platform for the Data Warehouse disruptions caused by these concepts and how to accommodate them.