Data Warehousing: Building the Corporate Knowledge Base

ISBN-10: 1850328560
ISBN-13: 9781850328568
Series: Data Warehousing
Pages: 470
Language: English
Published: 1996
Publisher: International Thomson Computer Press
Author: Tom Hammergren

Description

Data warehousing - organizing the vast quantities of data in an enterprise to support ad hoc queries and rapid data analysis - is becoming essential to the information-driven business. This text covers the fundamentals of designing, modelling and delivering a data warehouse. Based on field experience and including detailed examples, the book details techniques linked into a comprehensive methodology that allows system professionals to build and deliver their specific company's data warehouse according to management's needs. The methodology covers the entire life-cycle, from gathering business requirements from end users, analyzing and modeling these requirements, creating the data warehouse, and finally administering and maintaining the data warehouse system.