Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support - Hardcover

Poe, Vidette; Reeves, Laura L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0135906628 ISBN 13: 9780135906620

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

This book provides practical technical information and development guidelines for building a data warehouse for decision support processing. The author is a recognized expert in the field.

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The start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to data warehousing.

In Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, Second Edition, a team of the world's leading experts presents a start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to designing and implementing data warehouses. You'll find up-to-the-minute solutions-oriented recommendations for the entire data warehouse development lifecycle, including:

• Best practices for requirements gathering and identifying business objectives.
• Critical success factors―why and how they affect the success of your project.
• Planning, scoping, and managing your data warehouse project.
• Managing metadata for a production data warehouse.

Learn how to address one of the most critical, neglected issues in data warehouse deployment: data integration. Discover:

• Proven data analysis techniques to efficiently consolidate and integrate data across business units and divisions
• The analysis needed for all of the phases of data integration, including data sourcing, consolidation, conversion, and population.
• The added value that data integration brings to your data warehouse.

This completely revamped second edition also includes detailed new case studies showing how four leading companies have planned, implemented, and profited from data warehousing.

Whether you're a database professional, analyst, architect, or DSS user, Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support' delivers the answers you need today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0135906628
• ISBN 13: 9780135906620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English