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Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition) - Hardcover

Poe, Vidette; Klauer, Patricia; Brobst, Stephen

 
9780137696390: Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition)

Synopsis

Completely revised, expanded, and updated, this second edition gives extensive new coverage of data integration, management, indexing, cleansing, and transformation. The book covers powerful new multi-dimensional front-ends and conversion tools and gives detailed coverage of lifecycle issues.

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About the Author

VIDETTE POE is President of Strategic Business Solutions, Inc. She has specialized in data architecture, data integration, data administration strategies, and data warehouse design and development for more than a decade.

PATRICIA KLAUER is co-founder of Manage Data, Inc. She specializes in assisting large organizations design infrastructure, architecture, organizational structure, and procedures for enterprise-wide information management.

STEPHEN BROBST is a Senior Consultant at Tanning Technology Corp., and a founder and managing partner at Strategic Technologies & Systems. He specializes in the construction of data warehouse solutions for Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

From the Back Cover

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.

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