The BAM Approach builds on our original Event-oriented
Canonical Data ModelERD Data Model (Top-down)
Click here to download a paper on
BAM for Telecomms from Systar, whose
Telecomms customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom
and Saudi Telecom.
A powerful application of BAM is to establish a tailored and efficient approach to
loading data into a Data Warehouse.
A common techique of Using a
'Snapshot' technique can result in the wasteful and
expensive loading of duplicate data.
This can be replaced by a tailored BAM approach that will load only the data specific
to a particular Event.
For example, an Event for a Telecomms 'New Subscription' could trigger the load of
only the relevant Subscription data.
When we start to design the ERD Model, the starting point is our Models that are on
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