Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation [With CD-Rom] - Hardcover

Humphries, Mark W.; Hawkins, Michael W.; Dy, Michelle C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130809020 ISBN 13: 9780130809025

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

This book delivers what every data warehousing project participant needs most: a thorough overview of today's best solutions, and a reliable step-by-step process for building warehouses that meet their objectives. It answers key questions asked by everyone involved in a data warehouse initiative. And, with over 75 figures, it doesn't just tell you how to get the job done: it shows you. Walk through migration strategies and scenarios, including 12 key implementation steps. Review crucial management and support issues, including techniques for problem resolution, capacity planning, security, and backup. Discover state-of-the-art schema design and metadata development techniques. Choose optimal hardware, software, and platforms--and evolve your data warehouse as new technologies mature. Preview metadata interchange standards and tomorrow's Web-based solutions. Whatever your data warehousing goals, this book can help you achieve them faster and at lower cost. A part of the Enterprise Computing Institute Series.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Humphries is President/CEO of Intranet Business Systems, Inc., The Philippines. He has 13 years experience in management and consulting throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, and led major warehousing projects for two U.S. utilities.

Michelle Dy, Business Analyst at Intranet Business Systems, Inc., specializes in methods consulting, BPR, planning, analysis, and design.

From the Back Cover

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A start-to-finish process for deploying successful data warehouses.

This book delivers what every data warehousing project participant needs most: a thorough overview of today's best solutions, and a reliable step-by-step process for building warehouses that meet their objectives. It answers the key questions asked by everyone involved in a data warehouse initiative: project sponsors, developers, managers, and CIOs. And, with over 75 figures, it doesn't just tell you how to get the job done: it shows you.

• Migration strategies and scenarios
• Management and support: issue resolution, capacity planning, security, backup, and more
• Specific answers for project sponsors, managers, and CIOs
• 12 steps for implementation
• Best techniques for schema design and metadata
• Choosing the right hardware, software, and platforms
• Evolving as new technologies mature

Rely on this book's up-to-date listings of vendors and Web resources. Learn to evolve your data warehouse as new technologies mature-including metadata interchange standards, Web solutions, and Windows …Ø NT. Whatever your goals, Data Warehousing for IT Professionals will help you achieve them faster and at lower cost.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130809020
• ISBN 13: 9780130809025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384