The Datawarehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

In its simplest terms, this book is a step-by-step methodology for designing, developing, and deploying data marts and data warehouses. It shows how dimensional design fits in the overall lifecycle of planning, designing, developing, and deploying data marts and data warehouses. In other words, it covers ALL of the steps a developer needs to go through to guarantee a successful enterprise-wide data warehousing solution. It also covers how to design data marts that are well integrated with the overall data warehouse architecture.


Table of contents :
The Chess Pieces
Part I Project Management and Requirements
· The Business Dimensional Lifecycle
· Project Planning and Management
· Collecting the Requirements

Part II Data Design
· A First Course on Dimensional Modeling
· A Graduate Course on Dimensional Modeling
· Building Dimensional Models

Part III Architecture
· Introducing Data Warehouse Architecture
· Back Room Technical Architecture
· Architecture for the Front Room
· Infrastructure and Metadata
· A Graduate Course on the Internet and Security
· Creating the Architecture Plan and Selecting Products
Part IV Implementation
· A Graduate Course on Aggregates
· Completing the Physical Design
· Data Staging
· Building End User Applications
Part V Deployment and Growth
· Planning the Deployment
· Maintaining and Growing the Data Warehouse

Appendices
Index



Market Description :
· Database/Data Warehouse Developer
· Designer or Manager

About Author :
Ralph Kimball has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of today's most internationally well-known speakers, consultants, and teachers on data warehousing. He writes the "Data Warehouse Architect" column for Intelligent Enterprise magazine. Dr. Kimball's coauthors have each founded their own very successful data warehouse consulting firms: Laura Reeves of StarSoft Solutions; Margy Ross of DecisionWorks Consulting; and Warren Thornthwaite of InfoDynamics LLC.