Data Warehouse Design Solutions

Michael Venerable; Christopher Adamson

ISBN 10: 047125195X / ISBN 13: 9780471251958

Editore: Wiley, 1998

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Riassunto:

"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword.

Let the experts show you how to customize data warehouse designs for real business needs in Data Warehouse Design Solutions.

To effectively design a data warehouse, you have to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows you how business managers in different corporate functions actually use data warehouses to make decisions. You'll get a rich set of data warehouse designs that flow from realistic business cases. Two top experts show you how to customize your data warehouse designs for real-life business needs including:
* Sales and marketing
* Production and inventory management
* Budgeting and financial reporting
* Quality control
* Product delivery and fulfillment
* Strategic business analysis such as determining market share, rates of return on investment, and other key analytic ratios.

CD-ROM includes

All sample data warehouse designs with accompanying preformatted reports in HTML for specific business uses such as marketing, sales, and financial analysis.

Informazioni sull'autore: Chris Adamson has implemented data warehouses in a variety of industries. His customers include Fortune 500 companies, large and small businesses, government agencies, and tool vendors. He is currently a managing consultant at Sagent Technology.

Mike Venerable has ten years of experience designing decision support solutions in numerous industries, and, in 1992, founded Talus, a respected data warehousing and client/server consulting company, which was aquired by Sagent Technology in 1998.

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Titolo: Data Warehouse Design Solutions
Casa editrice: Wiley
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket