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I’m finishing The Kimball Group Reader. Interesting to read articles spanning 1995 to 2015. Kimball still as relevant as it was then, despite faster hardware.

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Good introduction, from the data mart, Kimball perspective. In data warehouses with which we’ve been involved, we generally look to Devlin, Inman and Imhoff as well as Kimball. Rather than top-down or bottom-up, we generally iterated our models from the middle-out. The essentials of matching organizational goals to technical architecture are even more important for the foundational knowledge as groups look towards data vaults, data fabric and [Dehghani] data mesh approaches. Your article helps a lot.

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