Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

The ultimate guide to data warehouses! "A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended."-Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc. A complete blueprint for planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing high-performance data marts and data warehouses. In his bestselling book, "The Data Warehouse Toolkit," Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his co-authors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include:* The Business Dimensional Lifecycle approach to data warehouse project planning and management * Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently * Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules * The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible datawarehouses * Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging * A framework for creating your technical architecture * Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance * Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques The CD-ROM supplies you with: * Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities * A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture * Checklists to use at key points in the project RALPH KIMBALL has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of today's most well-known speakers, consultants, and teachers internationally on data warehousing. He writes the "Data Warehouse Architecture" column for DBMS Magazine. Dr. Kimball's co-authors have each founded their own very successful data warehouse consulting firms: Laura Reeves of StarSoft Solutions, Margy Ross of DecisionWorks, and Warren Thornthwaite of InfoDynamics.