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Jonas De Keuster & Alex Higgs

The Next Challenge for Data Vault Teams: Governance, Metadata, and Scale

Discover how VaultSpeed and AutomateDV combine AI, metadata governance, and automation to simplify Data Vault delivery and support scalable data platform development.

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Mike Le Galloudec

The Peculiar State of AI

Explore how AI is transforming the data industry, enabling organisations to unlock insights, streamline processes, and make better business decisions. Mike LG shares practical examples and lessons from real-world AI implementations.

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Neil Strange

When Business Transformation Outruns the Data

When business moves faster than BI, trusted data and timely insights become critical. Discover how organisations can modernise their BI capabilities to support rapid decision-making, leadership change, and business transformation.

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Corné Potgieter

From monolith to a contract-driven mesh - with Data Vault as the foundation

Discover how Data Vault provides a foundation for Data Mesh, helping organisations move from monolithic platforms to contract-driven, domain-oriented data products.

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Juha Korpela

Semantics in Data Architecture - Real-Life learnings

Juha Korpela explores why semantics is the missing foundation of modern data and AI, and how conceptual data modeling helps organisations create shared meaning beyond tools and platforms.

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Jonas De Keuster & Alex Higgs

Data Automation on dbt with VaultSpeed & AutomateDV

Discover how integrating Vaultspeed and AutomateDV enables end‑to‑end Data Vault automation, aligning business‑driven design with efficient, production‑ready dbt execution.

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Francesco Puppini

The best Data Model for AI

When joins distort numbers and schemas hide essential relationships, even simple datasets can mislead. Francesco Puppini explains why this happens and presents a cleaner modeling method that eliminates duplication and improves analytical accuracy.

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Adam Sobey

Data-Centric Engineering at scale: How do we automate workflows for large-scale emissions reductions? 

Organisations face huge modelling demands as AI evolves in transport and infrastructure. Adam Sobey reveals how automation can scale this work and deliver real emissions impact.

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Stephen Nwoye

Giving Your Organization a Competitive Edge in the AI Era

Unreliable AI insights usually stem from flawed data foundations. Stephen Nwoye outlines why this happens and shares a metadata‑based architecture that helps large language models deliver clearer, more trustworthy results.

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Viktor Hrtánek

Template-Driven Data Vault: A Code Centric Approach to Master Complexity

Discover how templated modelling and automated pipelines reduce complexity and accelerate Data Vault delivery.

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Alex Higgs

Navigating Data Vault Success

A grounded exploration of how day‑to‑day delivery, analyst involvement, and hands‑on learning help bridge the gap between technical detail and business value, guiding teams toward Data Vault solutions that support meaningful BI results.

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Jose Torres

The Strategic Edge: Choosing Data Vault for Seamless SAP Integration

Learn how Data Vault gives organisations a strategic edge in handling SAP’s complexity, enabling more flexible integration, better data quality, and faster analytical insights.

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John Giles

Better Data Vault? Easier Data Vault? Actually, a lot more than Data Vault

Blending decades of experience with his town‑planning metaphor, John Giles explains how robust conceptual models and reusable patterns can transform Data Vault into a business‑friendly, scalable approach that works far beyond analytics.

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Francesco Longoni

Building a Data Vault at speed

This session shows how smarter patterns, clearer alignment, and better collaboration can transform Data Vault from a technical framework into a high‑value, business‑first data platform.

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Tero-Matti Kinnen

When Everything Changes Overnight: Data's Impact on Healthcare Reform in Finland

In this real‑world story of rapid transformation, Tero‑Matti Kinnen shows how data and automation powered Southwest Finland’s overnight healthcare reform, delivering clarity, stability, and actionable insights under intense time pressure.

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Neil Strange

Common Challenges with Data Vault Modelling REVISITED

Neil Strange explores the real‑world obstacles that complicate Data Vault modelling and provides actionable insights to help teams balance abstraction, design effective hubs and links, and build more reliable data platforms.

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Andrew Jones

Data quality: prevention is better than the cure

With a focus on preventing problems instead of correcting them later, this session highlights how quality principles and upstream controls help teams produce cleaner data and more stable analytics.

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Alex Lai

IRiS – Simplifying Data Vault Automation

A practical look at how smarter automation, clearer patterns, and hands‑on delivery experience can simplify Data Vault development and help teams build better data platforms with confidence.

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Francesco Puppini

SQL with LLMs: Chatting with Your Data

A real‑world perspective on how modelling discipline, curiosity, and practical SQL experience shape the way LLMs understand data, showing how better structures and metadata enable more natural, conversational querying

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Patrick Cuba

Data Mesh & Data Vault on Snowflake

A practitioner’s view of combining domain‑driven design, Data Vault methods, and Snowflake capabilities to shape reliable data platforms that scale with the organisation’s needs.

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Roberto Zagni

Data Engineering with dbt - a pragmatic approach

A practical reflection on how lessons from the field and clear engineering principles guide a more sustainable approach to building dbt‑powered Data Vault solutions.

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Andreas Heitmann

Perfect Harmony: Modeling Data with Ellie and Haley for the Willibald Team

A concise story of practice, partnership, and iteration, showing how the right automation supports modelers in navigating real‑world challenges and producing stable, scalable Data Vault designs.

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Cristian Ivanoff

McDonalds Nordics: Enabling improved focus on modelling and the business

How McDonald’s Nordics used Data Vault and automation to replace fragmented local reporting with a unified, business‑focused data platform. The session shows how standardisation improved consistency, scalability, and time to insight across the region.

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Barry Devlin

Cloud Data Warehousing Redux

How do we make decisions, and should we entrust them to AI built upon cloud data warehousing?

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Alessia Pulieri

Migrating and Integrating Data at the Independent Office for Police Conduct

A public sector migration effort highlights how structured integration approaches improve data consistency, governance and operational reliability in sensitive environments.

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Neil Strange

The future of Business Intelligence

Evolving BI systems are moving toward more automated, real-time and integrated architectures that enhance decision-making and reduce analytical latency across organisations.

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Ramana Katabattina

Accelerate your Data Vault journey with the power of erwin Suite

Using the erwin Suite, organisations can speed up Data Vault adoption through automated design, stronger governance controls and more efficient modelling workflows.

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Chad Sanderson

Federated Data Management

A federated approach to data management enables distributed ownership while maintaining governance consistency across complex enterprise data environments.

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Jonas De Keuster

Combining Data Fabric and Data Mesh

Integrating Data Fabric with Data Mesh aligns centralised governance with distributed data ownership to create more adaptable and scalable enterprise architectures.

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Alexey Makhotkin

Incrementally documenting your database

Continuously documenting database structures ensures evolving systems remain understandable, traceable and easier to manage across iterative development cycles.

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Erik Bouvin

How Twine can efficiently move data from Data Vault to Data Mart

While Data Vault highly supports agile development, Kimball-style Data Marts usually do not.

In this session, Erik Bouvin will discuss how data can be moved between your Data Vault and Data Marts in an agile way, without data pipeline dependencies and bypassing PITs using Twine.

Twine is an efficient set-based algorithm that can be applied when you have a table in which you have recorded a history of changes and some other table with related points in time, for which you want to know which historical rows were in effect at those different time points.

Join us to learn about Erik's innovative approach.

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Hung Dang

How supercharged CI/CD & Data Vault ensures data quality and development agility

Extending CI/CD practices into Data Vault environments strengthens automation, improves data quality controls and accelerates reliable analytics delivery.

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Barry Devlin

Clearing Skies for Cloud Data Warehousing

Cloud-based data warehousing removes traditional infrastructure constraints, allowing organisations to scale analytics systems more flexibly and efficiently.

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Neil Strange

Data Mesh and Data Vault – Never the Twain shall meet?

Contrasting Data Mesh with Data Vault highlights tensions between decentralised ownership and structured enterprise modelling in modern data architectures.

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Connor Lough

Fifty First Dates with Data Vault

Repeated iterations in Data Vault projects reflect evolving understanding of modelling principles and the gradual refinement of enterprise data architecture practices.

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Bruce McCartney

Agile building of Information using Data Vault 2.0

Applying agile principles to Data Vault 2.0 supports incremental delivery of structured information while maintaining governance and architectural consistency.

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Patrick Cuba

Data Vault Performance & Constraints on Snowflake

This session explores Data Vault performance on Snowflake, focusing on constraints, design choices, and optimisation strategies for scalable cloud data models.

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Neil Sparrow

Building a joined-up view of your organisation using Data Vault

Neil Sparrow explained integrating Kimball models with Data Vault, emphasising its role in preventing data silos and enabling incremental development. He touched on Data Vault architecture and innovative team concepts.

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Petr Beles

Model-driven Data Vault Automation with Datavault Builder

Petr Beles, CEO of Datavault Builder, discussed simplifying Data Warehouse projects and achieving maintainability. He emphasised the importance of the business data model as the foundation for Data Vault-driven data warehousing.

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Jean-François Saluden & Stéphane Vivien

How to manage business key evolution within the business process

Jean-Francois Saluden and Stephane Vivien addressed the challenge of managing evolving business keys within business process. They discussed scenarios where business keys were constructed during processes, leading to multiple contact keys in the Data Vault system. The session explored strategies to consolidate these keys into a unified one.

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Torsten Glunde

Data Vault and Machine Learning – does it fit together?

Torsten Glunde explored the compatibility of Data Vault and Machine Learning in a model-driven architecture, emphasising the automation and operationalisation potential for machine learning models, including feature management, algorithms, parameters, and training scores.

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Jennifer Stirrup

Is your data your organisational North Star, or your Death Star?

Jennifer Stirrup presented the question, “Is your Data your Organisational North Star or Death Star?” Many businesses grappled with the transition from static reports to innovative analytics and are struggling to adapt. They have also recognised that implementing Business Intelligence projects demanded a different skill set and a shift in organisational culture. This presentation unveiled some of those answers.

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Richard Adams

Realising the value of Data Vault initiatives across your organisation

Richard Adams discussed gaining senior leadership support for Data Vault initiatives, the “7 Steps to Maximise Data Value,” and business user perspectives on Data Vault initiatives.

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Francesco Puppini

Building a Unified Star Schema on top of a Data Vault

Francesco Puppini highlighted the benefits of using the Unified Star Schema (USS) in building an Information Mart. He presented an alternative approach for handling large data volumes and included a live demo.

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Alessia Pulieri

Building an enterprise data warehouse at the IOPC: our journey

Alessia Pulieri shared the transformation journey from an outdated Data Warehouse to a scalable, flexible Data Vault 2.0 Enterprise Data Warehouse achieved through agile practices and strategic partnerships.

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Dylan Roe

The ace up Betway’s sleeve

Dylan Roe presented a case study showcasing how Osiris Trading adopted and learned Data Vault. The presentation detailed the challenges faced during the implementation and provided insights into the status of the project.

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Mustafa Rhemtulla

Building a Data Vault at Oodle

Mustafa Rhemtulla presented a case study on Oodle Car Finance’s experience in implementing Data Vault.

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Heli Helskyaho & Matias Helskyaho

Machine Learning in the Cloud, without any panic

This session simplifies cloud ML, focusing on practical setup, architecture choices, and moving smoothly from experimentation to production.

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Chris Fisher

Using testing to deliver rapid business value with Data Vault

This session shows how embedding testing into Data Vault workflows helps teams deliver higher-quality data faster and with greater confidence in outcomes.

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Christopher Siegfried

Why you need a Data Vault for your Data Vault

This session explains why even Data Vault implementations benefit from a governing layer, helping teams manage complexity, ensure consistency, and maintain long-term scalability.

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Petr Beles

Model Driven - Data Vault Automation with Datavault Builder

This session shows how automation can simplify Data Vault modelling and speed up delivery while maintaining structure and consistency across projects.

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Wayne Eckerson

Is there a Future for Business Intelligence? Key Trends You Need to Know!

This session explores how Business Intelligence is evolving with real-time analytics, modern data stacks, and more adaptive decision-making approaches.

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Juha Korpela

Capture your business needs with conceptual data modelling

Misaligned business requirements often lead to inconsistent analytics, while conceptual data modelling provides a shared structural blueprint that stabilises design decisions.

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Scott Ambler

Agile Data Warehousing/ Business Intelligence: Addressing the hard problems

Through agile delivery methods in data warehousing and BI, organisations address long-standing integration, scalability and change management challenges.

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Veronika Durgin

What to do (or not do) when implementing a Data Vault - lessons from the field

Recurring implementation mistakes in Data Vault projects reveal where teams misapply modelling principles and how better delivery choices emerge.

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Jacek Majchrzak

Decentralize your data using business domains (Data Mesh way)

As organisations adopt Data Mesh, data ownership is increasingly organised around business domains, changing how scalability, accountability and delivery are managed across teams.

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Richard Strange

Refactoring Data Vaults with Ontologies

By introducing ontologies into Data Vault design, teams can restructure evolving models to maintain shared meaning and reduce semantic inconsistency over time.

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Dominic Cahill

Agile non-invasive data governance

Rather than enforcing rigid oversight layers, agile non-invasive governance integrates control mechanisms directly into data processes to maintain compliance without slowing delivery.

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Richard Adams & Paul Kinnier

Learn how to combine Data Vault automation with data governance & data quality

Combining Data Vault automation with governance and data quality raises questions about how consistency and control can be maintained at scale.

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Christian Kaul

What Time Is It?

Handling time correctly in distributed data systems introduces architectural challenges that directly influence data accuracy, sequencing and operational reliability.

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Neil Strange

5 most common challenges with Data Vault modelling

From modelling complexity to integration overhead, recurring Data Vault challenges reveal where architecture decisions most affect long-term maintainability.

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Barry Devlin

Cutting Data Fabric and Mesh to Measure with Dr. Barry Devlin

Comparing Data Fabric with Data Mesh highlights how architectural choices influence interoperability, decentralisation and enterprise-wide data coordination.

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Dirk Vermeiren

Accelerate the mapping of your business taxonomy

As data ecosystems expand, accelerating business taxonomy mapping becomes increasingly important for maintaining shared definitions and structural consistency.

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Justin Mullen & Guy Adams

Why Data Vault won’t work long-term without end-to-end DataOps

Without integrated DataOps capabilities, Data Vault environments struggle to maintain operational efficiency, deployment consistency and scalable delivery over time.

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Steven De Costa

Data Commons, Data Sharing and Data Marketplaces

New approaches to data sharing are changing how organisations collaborate, distribute access and create value from shared information ecosystems.

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Bruce McCartney

Bringing streaming data into Data Vault in (near) real-time

As organisations demand faster insights, integrating streaming data into Data Vault architectures changes how ingestion, latency and scalability are managed.

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Neil Strange

Reference Architecture for Data Vault on Snowflake with Azure

Combining Snowflake with Azure services creates a cloud-native foundation for Data Vault architectures built around scalability, orchestration and platform interoperability.

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Patrick Cuba

Meet Patrick Cuba author of a new book "The Data Vault Guru"

New perspectives on Data Vault methodology highlight evolving approaches to modelling standards, implementation strategy and enterprise data architecture.

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Dan Linstedt

Dan Linstedt: The Future of Data Vault

As Data Vault continues to evolve, future developments centre on scalability, automation and adapting modelling practices to increasingly complex data ecosystems.

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The things I wish I knew before I started my first Data Vault Project!

Early Data Vault implementations frequently expose avoidable design and delivery challenges that later inform more robust modelling and architectural decisions.

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Kent Graziano & Dmytro Yaroshenko

Why Snowflake's latest features are great for Data Vault

Recent Snowflake capabilities strengthen Data Vault implementations by improving performance, simplifying scaling and supporting more efficient cloud-based data architecture.

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Drew Banin

Why the world of data analytics and Data Vault is so excited by dbt

As dbt adoption grows, its role in Data Vault environments highlights how transformation tooling improves structure, testing and scalable analytics delivery.

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Adam Smith

Data Vault User Case Study - Tokio Marine HCC

A real-world insurance implementation demonstrates how Data Vault supports scalable integration and consistent data delivery across large, regulated environments.

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Tim Scott & Jonas De Keuster

Data Vault User Case Study - Argenta Bank

In banking environments, Data Vault enables structured data integration that strengthens governance and improves consistency across reporting and analytics systems.

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Veronika Durgin

Data Vault User Case Study - Indigo AG

A real-world agricultural use case shows how Data Vault enables structured integration of complex datasets to support scalable analytics and operational insight.

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Francesco Puppini & Bill Inmon

Building the Unified Star Schema

Blending dimensional modelling principles into a unified structure improves consistency between analytics layers while reducing complexity in enterprise reporting systems.

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John Giles

Data Vault success? It starts with the business model!

Data Vault outcomes are shaped early by how well business concepts are structured, linking domain understanding to scalable architectural design decisions.

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Neil Strange

Data Vault: What's it all about

At its core, Data Vault is a modelling methodology designed to structure enterprise data for scalability, traceability and adaptable integration across systems.

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Alan Burnett

Erwin Data Intelligence for Data Vault automation

Automation tools like erwin Data Intelligence streamline Data Vault design by reducing manual modelling effort while improving governance and structural consistency.

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Alex Higgs

Jump start your data warehouse

Early-stage data warehouse design emphasises rapid yet structured setup choices that influence long-term scalability, integration and analytics performance.

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Dmytro Yaroshenko

Snowflake: A Scalable Data Platform for Data Vault

Cloud-native capabilities in Snowflake enable Data Vault implementations to scale efficiently while maintaining flexibility in modelling and enterprise data processing.

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Paul Ramsay

Why Corporate Risk Management Needs Data Vault

Data Vault strengthens risk management frameworks by providing structured, auditable data models that improve visibility and consistency across risk reporting systems.

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Neil Strange

Data Vault: Business Rule Secrets

Embedding business rules within Data Vault structures clarifies how enterprise logic is applied, supporting consistent interpretation and scalable data processing.

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Neil Strange

Data Vault Modelling

Structured Data Vault modelling provides a consistent framework for integrating complex enterprise data while maintaining scalability and traceability across systems.

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Neil Strange

Building the Business Case

A well-structured business case connects data initiatives to measurable value, helping organisations justify investment and align stakeholders on delivery outcomes.

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Neil Strange

Unlocking Data Vault

Overcoming common adoption challenges enables organisations to better realise the benefits of Data Vault through clearer design practices and improved delivery alignment.

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Terry Mooney

Data Vault Automation

Automation in Data Vault accelerates delivery by standardising modelling workflows and reducing manual complexity in enterprise data architecture.

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Neil Strange

Introduction to Data Vault 2.0

Data Vault 2.0 extends core modelling principles with stronger automation, agility and governance to support modern enterprise data ecosystems at scale.

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Simon Dimaline

Data Vault: Integration Architecture

Integration architecture in Data Vault defines how disparate data sources are systematically combined to support scalable and auditable enterprise data management.

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Dan Linstedt

Data Vault 2.0 The Benefits

Key advantages of Data Vault 2.0 include improved automation, enhanced scalability and better alignment between governance and modern data architecture needs.

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Kent Graziano

Triple Threat Case Study: Data Vault 2.0 at Aptus Health

A real-world healthcare implementation demonstrates how Data Vault 2.0 supports scalable integration and consistent analytics across complex, regulated data ecosystems.

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