Daniel Linstedt is an American
data architect
A data architect is a practitioner of data architecture, a data management discipline concerned with designing, creating, deploying and managing an organization's data architecture. Data architects define how the data will be stored, consumed, inte ...
known for having developed the
data modeling
Data modeling in software engineering is the process of creating a data model for an information system by applying certain formal techniques.
Overview
Data modeling is a process used to define and analyze data requirements needed to suppo ...
method
data vault for
data warehouse
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s and
business intelligence
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. He developed the model in the 1990s and published the first version in the early 2000s. In 2012, Data Vault 2.0 was announced and it was released in 2013. In addition to data modeling, the data vault method incorporates
process design
In chemical engineering, process design is the choice and sequencing of units for desired physical and/or chemical transformation of materials. Process design is central to chemical engineering, and it can be considered to be the summit of that ...
,
database tuning
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and performance improvements for
ETL/
ELT,
Capability Maturity Model Integration
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process level improvement training and appraisal program. Administered by the CMMI Institute, a subsidiary of ISACA, it was developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It is required by many ...
(CMMI) and
agile software development
In software development, agile (sometimes written Agile) practices include requirements discovery and solutions improvement through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams with their customer(s)/ end user(s), ad ...
.
Dan holds a
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
in
computer science
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from
California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico, or commonly, Chico State, is a public university in Chico, California. Founded in 1887, it is the second oldest campus in the California State University system. As of the fall 2020 semester, the university had ...
. Since 2020, he has been the
chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
(CEO) of DataVaultAlliance Holdings LLC.
Selected works
* ''The Business of Data Vault Modeling'' (2010-11-19) by author Daniel Linstedt and co-authors Kent Graziano and Hans Hultgren
* ''Super Charge Your Data Warehouse: Invaluable Data Modeling Rules to Implement Your Data Vault (Data Warehouse Architecture Book 1)'' (2012-05-20) by Dan Linstedt and Kent Graziano
* ''Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0'' (2015-09-15) by Daniel Linstedt and Michael Olschimke
See also
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Data architecture
Data architecture consist of models, policies, rules, and standards that govern which data is collected and how it is stored, arranged, integrated, and put to use in data systems and in organizations. Data is usually one of several architecture dom ...
*
Enterprise architecture
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People in information technology