| The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit Contributor(s): Kimball, Ralph (Author), Ross, Margy (Author), Thornthwaite, Warren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470149779 ISBN-13: 9780470149775 Publisher: Wiley OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: "A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended." — Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc. In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include: The Business Dimensional LifecycleTM approach to data warehouse project planning and management Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses A framework for creating your technical architecture Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques The CD-ROM supplies you with: Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book Checklists to use at key pointsin the project |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Databases - Data Warehousing - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - Systems Analysis & Design - Computers | Data Modeling & Design |
| Dewey: 005.74 |
| LCCN: 2007040691 |
| Physical Information: 1.46" H x 7.33" W x 9.28" (2.11 lbs) 672 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A thorough update to the industry standard for designing, developing, and deploying data warehouse and business intelligence systems The world of data warehousing has changed remarkably since the first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit was published in 1998. In that time, the data warehouse industry has reached full maturity and acceptance, hardware and software have made staggering advances, and the techniques promoted in the premiere edition of this book have been adopted by nearly all data warehouse vendors and practitioners. In addition, the term business intelligence emerged to reflect the mission of the data warehouse: wrangling the data out of source systems, cleaning it, and delivering it to add value to the business. Ralph Kimball and his colleagues have refined the original set of Lifecycle methods and techniques based on their consulting and training experience. The authors understand first-hand that a data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) system needs to change as fast as its surrounding organization evolves. To that end, they walk you through the detailed steps of designing, developing, and deploying a DW/BI system. You'll learn to create adaptable systems that deliver data and analyses to business users so they can make better business decisions. |