The data in your data warehouse are only valuable if they are actually used. To make your data usable, you need to consider how the data are presented to end-users and how quickly users can answer their questions. In today’s world, businesses are continuously evolving. With changing times a wave of transformation be it digital, be it predictive forecasting, or building the agile ways of operations that will sustain in crisis, having your data structured in the right format and accurate with respect to changing needs of your business is of prime importance. Data modeling plays a crucial role in enabling business users to make more informed, and data-driven decisions are key to success. Data Modeling is a way to structure your data to be stored in a database, and the approaches define agility of the database, query performance and value add to the information being extracted. In this episode, guest Dr. Maria Wang sits down with TDS to discuss best modeling practices and also cover some guidelines on how to build better data models that are more maintainable, more useful, and more performant.