A Manager's Guide to Data Warehousing

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-26
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

Aimed at helping business and IT managers clearly communicate with each other, this helpful book addresses concerns straight-on and provides practical methods to building a collaborative data warehouse . You'll get clear explanations of the goals and objectives of each stage of the data warehouse lifecycle while learning the roles that both business managers and technicians play at each stage. Discussions of the most critical decision points for success at each phase of the data warehouse lifecycle help you understand ways in which both business and IT management can make decisions that best meet unified objectives.

Author Biography

Laura L. Reeves, coauthor of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, has over 23 years of experience in end-to-end data warehouse development focused on developing comprehensive project plans, collecting business requirements, designing business dimensional models and database schemas, and creating enterprise data warehouse strategies and data architectures.

Table of Contents

The Essentials of Data Warehousing
Gaining Data Warehouse Success
The Executive's FAQ for Data Warehousing
The Business Side of Data Warehousing
Understanding Where You Are and Finding Your Way
IT - Business Partnerships
Setting Up a Successful Project
Providing Requirements
Dealing with the Data
Modeling the Data for Your Business
Managing Data as a Corporate Asset
Building the Project
Architecture, Infrastructure, and Tools
Implementation: Building the Database
Data Delivery - What You Finally See
Next Steps/Expanding on Success
Managing the Production Data Warehouse
Achieving Long Term Success
Glossary
Index
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