Director
The Knowledge Warehouse Ltd (Knoware).
Wellington
New Zealand
Clare Somerville will be presenting on Out of sight, out of mind? Managing data warehousing on Tuesday
Following a career in music, including several years training secondary school music teachers in Nigeria, Clare returned to New Zealand and embarked on a career in Information Technology. “Yes,” she says, “there really is a resemblance between writing sixteenth century counterpoint and data warehousing.”
Her work in IT spans twenty years of diverse experience, including analyzing data, systems analysis and design, developing major operational and information systems, technical operational management of large data warehouses, metadata management, and the design and implementation of enterprise wide business intelligence infrastructures.
The common theme across much of this work is Clare’s interest in best practice management of large quantities of data, to produce reliable information. There are fancy tools available for delivering information, but that information is only as sound as the infrastructure of well-managed data which it sits on. Clare loves data.
Clare has excellent communication skills. She works closely with analysts, ensuring the data infrastructure supports their work of delivering information to the business. She provides guidance to senior management for their understanding and buy in, and she works on technical design, support, coordination and management. She spans the technical and the business worlds.
The Knowledge Warehouse (trading as Knoware), is a business intelligence and data warehousing consultancy of which Clare is a founding director. Knoware has a number of skilled associates programming, training, project managing, designing and developing data warehouses and business intelligence systems.
Clare works with many government departments, banks, insurance companies and telecommunications – basically any organization in the private or public sector with heaps of data, and the need to produce information from it. She is often called in to review the management of data in these organizations, identify issues, and make recommendations on how to improve and develop them so that they can support the increasing need for good information.
Drawing on her extensive experience working with data and information in different organisations, but not necessarily using her degrees in music and education, Clare has built a reputation for the professional technical and business papers and presentations she gives at national and international conferences – most of which relate to business intelligence and the correct management of data in warehousing environments.
Clare Somerville
Director
Knoware
Postal:
PO Box 10 541
The Terrace
Wellington 6143
New Zealand
Street:
Level 15, Equinox House, 111 The Terrace
Wellington 6143
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 (0)800 566 9273
