A Manager's Guide to Data Warehousing
Samenvatting
A succesfull data warehouse project can provide immense value for business enterprises or other organizations. Building and maintaining a data warehouse demands the combines effort of both IT adn non-technical personnel. While there are plenty of resources aimed at the technology professionals who design and build data warehouses, there has to date been no useful guide written for a non-technical audience. This book fills that void and serves an ideal resource for business and IT managers and other from the non-IT side who want to do their part to ensure data warehousing success.
This helpgul book provides a solid introduction to the fundamentals of data warehousing. The author details each step of a datawarehouse project and provides a clear explanation of what's involved in efficiently building a data warehouse and what must be done to deliver the data. You'll examine the business management of a data warehouse and discover essential methods for cultivating a strong partnership between the business adn IT elements of your organization. You can use this knowledge to be more effective when sharing your requirements and concerns.
A Manager's Guide to Data Warehousing explains what you need to create your data warehousing and establish long-term success.
The book covers:
- The most common factors for ensuring data warehousing success and the roadblocks that can prevent it
- How to ensure that business and technical staff have a common understanding of the data warehouse project
- How to effectively communicate your business requirements for the data warehouse
- The tools you need to make certain that data is organized and can be delivered as needed
- Ways to deploy the data warehouse and ensure sustainable success
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Part 1: The Essentials of Data Warehousing.
1. Gaining Data Warehouse Success.
2. The Executive's FAQ for Data Warehousing.
Part 2: The Business Side of Data Warehousing.
3. Understanding Where You Are and Finding Your Way.
4. IT – Business Partnerships.
5. Setting Up a Successful Project.
6. Providing Requirements.
Part 3:Dealing with the Data.
7. Modeling the Data for Your Business.
8. Managing Data as a Corporate Asset.
Part 4: Building the Project.
9. Architecture, Infrastructure, and Tools.
10. Implementation: Building the Database.
11. Data Delivery - What You Finally See.
Part 5: Next Steps/Expanding on Success.
12. Managing the Production Data Warehouse.
13. Achieving Long Term Success.
Glossary.
Index.
