The data warehouse lifecycle toolkit / Ralph Kimball and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimball, Ralph, author.

Margy, Ross, author.

Warren, Thornthwaite, author.

Joy, Mundy, author.

Bob, Becker, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data warehousing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (674 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley. 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introducing the Kimball lifecycle

Launching and managing the project/program

Collecting the requirements

Introducing the technical architecture

Creating the architecture plan and selecting products

Introducing dimensional modeling

Designing the dimensional model

Designing the physical database and planning for performance

Introducing extract, transformation, and load

Designing and developing the ETL system

Introducing business intelligence applications

Designing and developing business intelligence applications

Deploying and supporting the DW/BI system

Expanding the DW/BI system.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613374639

9781283374637

1283374633

9781118075043

1118075048

9781118079560

1118079566

OCLC:

730151615