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A Manager's Guide to Data Warehousing

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.

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

I. The Essentials of Data Warehousing.

1. Gaining Data Warehouse Success.

2. The Executive's FAQ for Data Warehousing.

II. The Business Side of Data Warehousing.

3. Understanding Where You Are and Finding Your Way.

4. IT – Business Partnerships.

5. Setting Up a Successful Project.

6. Providing Requirements.

III. Dealing with the Data.

7. Modeling the Data for Your Business.

8. Managing Data as a Corporate Asset.

IV. Building the Project.

9. Architecture, Infrastructure, and Tools.

10. Implementation: Building the Database.

11. Data Delivery – What You Finally See.

V. Next Steps/Expanding on Success.

12. Managing the Production Data Warehouse.

13.Achieving Long Term Success.

Glossary.

Index.

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