Shane Gibson presenting at DVEM Rising in Denver Colorado USA in October 2018 showing how you can go from the AgileBI BEAM process to an AgileBI Data Vault model.

1. DVEM RISING 2018
BEAM & DATA VAULT
Match made in heaven

2. HOW DID I
GET HERE
MY HISTORY
Vendor presales, founded OptimalBI 10 years ago, Strategy & Roadmaps,
Evaluations, Architecture, Delivery Lead, AgileBI coaching and AgileBI.guru
for last 4 years.
FIRST BEAM
BEAM 2012, Optimal course 2014, Lawrence Corr in NZ 2015.
FIRST Data Vault
Data Vault 2013, Brian Bradley 2014, Hans Hultgren in NZ 2015,
Big Data implementation 2018.
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
4 airports, 12,000 km, 15.5 hours in air, 24 hours travel time, 0 days elapsed.

3. QUESTION #1
Who has experience with BEAM?
QUESTION #2
Who has experience with Data Vault?

4. WHAT ARE THEY?

5. Flexible, scalable and adaptable way to structure your data
Consistent data pattern allowing for quicker implementation
Allows for iterative development
Provides a historical view of the data
Easily adapts to changes within an evolving organization or systems
DATAVAULT
BUSINESSEVENTAND
ANALYSISMODELLING
An interactive way of capturing data requirements
Closes the gap between business user requirements and data design
Provides a collaborative language between business users,
business analysts, data modellers and developers
Allows for iterative capture of requirements

6. WHO
WHAT
WHEN
WHERE
HOW
MANY
WHY
HOW
CUSTOMER ORDERS PRODUCT
Customer orders an ice cream at
a store from an employee using
a promotion code at 1pm on
Friday 23rd Feb 2018 for $4.50

7. Event = core business processes defined by the
question of Who does What.
Example: Customer Orders Product.
Detail = core things that comprise the event,
defined by the 7w’s of Who, What, When,
Where, Why, How and How Many.
Example: Customer, Product, Order
Detail of Detail = things that help describe or
provide context for the core things.
Example: Customer Name, Customer Address, Customer
Age, Product Name, Product Type.
BEAM Event / Detail Table
BEAM Detail of Detail Table
1
2
3

8. Links record relationships between
core business concepts
Hubs represent core business concepts
Satellites store all the attributes for a
core business concept.
3
2
1

9. AGILEBI WHERE DO THEY FIT?

10. Ongoing Data and
Content Delivery
Information
Products
Priority
Req
Design
As Built
Roadmap
BEAM
Template
Matrix
Canvas
Matrix
Rules
Decision
Tables
DataOps
Data
Vault
Gherkin
Model
Recon
Deploy
Data
Transform
Test
Scope
Vision
Value
Mapping
PROCESSESPATTERNSTEMPLATESAUTOMATION

11. 2
1
Information Products
Data Requirements
(BEAM)
Data Model
(DV)
4
Context and Business
Rules
5
Data Automation
3
6
7
!
Business
Value
Visualization
Automated Deployment

12. RESOURCE CONSTRAINT
BLACK BOX
TIME TO VALUE
LATE DOCUMENTATION
REWORK
TEAMS OF ONE
DOESN'T SCALE
EXPERT

13. BEAM <> DATA VAULT

14. DATA
DRIVEN
REPORT or MODEL
DRIVEN
BUSINESS PROCESS
DRIVEN

15. DATA
MODELLING
BRAIN
STORMING
MODEL
STORMING

16. Who Does What represent the core business event
Detail represent core business entities
Detail of detail represent the attributes of core
business entities.
1
2
3
Links record relationships between
core business concepts
Hubs represent core business concepts
Satellites store all the attributes for a
core business concept.
3
2
1

21. http://AgileBI.Guru/speak/dvem2018