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New Presentations and Workshops

Dave Wentzel Blog Due to time constraints I haven't updated my presentations and workshops page for over a year. Here are the updates. Read More ›

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The Top Mistakes You'll Make When Moving to the Cloud

Dave Wentzel Blog I should've posted this article 3 years ago. I still see customers making the same mistakes they did 3 years ago when they move their workloads to the cloud. I'll show you the most common mistakes and how to avoid them. Read More ›

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Case Study in End-to-End Self-Service Analytics in the Cloud

Dave Wentzel Blog My client was a FinTech that needed to add self-service analytics to their customer solution. You too can do this quickly. In this post I'll show you how I focused on small MVPs and showing value quickly. Read More ›

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How to run a Discovery Workshop

Dave Wentzel Blog In this post I'll show you what a Discovery Workshop is and why it is so valuable for my clients Read More ›

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Case Study: Data Analytics in FinServ

Dave Wentzel Blog 'We have a product idea that will revolutionize our industry. Help us move quickly.' This post is a case study in how I did it. Read More ›

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Azure Databricks Demos

Dave Wentzel Blog A great Azure managed Spark offering, now with a few good demos Read More ›

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Chicago BI User Group Presentation: So You Want to Be a Data Scientist?

Dave Wentzel Blog Let's discuss one of the hottest topics for database professionals today. Read More ›

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So you are starting a blockchain project...

Dave Wentzel Blog You've just been asked by your business to start a blockchain project, how do you begin? Let me tell you how I think about blockchain projects. Read More ›

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How I Manage Successful Customer 360 Projects

Dave Wentzel Blog Starting a Customer 360 initiative at your company? Not sure what's next? Let me show you how I show value quickly and run a project with a high rate of success. Read More ›

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Why your EDW projects fail

Dave Wentzel Blog Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) projects have a high fail rate. In this post I'll show you why...and how to achieve a better success rate. Read More ›

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Cloud Vendor Lock-in

Dave Wentzel Blog I often here the comment made that 'We do not want to use Azure and be locked-in to one vendor'. Let me show you why that is not really an issue if you design your architecture smartly. Read More ›

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Case Study: Scaling Your Data Scientist

Dave Wentzel Blog 'Can you help us scale our data science team?' is a common ask I get from customers. This post is some case studies in what customers really need and how I have helped them. Read More ›

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Jekyll is so much better than Drupal and Wordpress

Dave Wentzel Blog I migrated my website to a static site generator. Let me tell you why. Read More ›

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New Book: SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R

Dave Wentzel Blog I was the book reviewer for a great new book on SQL Server and R integration. Read More ›