The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit: Tools and Techniques for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses: Tools and Techniques for ... and Deploying Data Marts and Data Warehouses [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

In The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, authors Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross and Warren Thornthwaite present a structure for undertaking the mammoth task of implementing a data warehouse. As part of a rather select group of professionals actually experienced in building data warehouses, the authors attempt to convey their expertise about how to approach the job. The book focuses on the "Star Lifecycle"--a high-level, project-planning approach to evolving existing information systems into an ever-changing data-warehouse solution. --Stephen Plain, Amazon.com

In The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, authors Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, and Warren Thornthwaite present a structure for undertaking the awesome task of implementing a data warehouse. As part of a rather select group of professionals actually experienced in building data warehouses, the authors attempt to convey their expertise about how to approach the job. The book focuses on the "Star Lifecycle"--a high-level project-planning approach to evolving existing information systems into an ever-changing data-warehouse solution. --Stephen Plain

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Das Buch richtet sich primär an Designer und Informations-Manager im Umfeld von Data-Warehouse-Anwendungen. Diese Zielgruppe erhält Ratschläge und Handlungsanleitungen, um deren Anforderungen optimal zu bewältigen. Dabei ist der ganzheitliche Ansatz zu betonen, der eine evolutionäre Weiterentwicklung besser als singuläre Schnellschüsse unterstützen kann. auch der zugrundeliegende Architekturcharakter trägt zur Festigung dieser Intension bei. Zu knapp werden die Themen Data Mining und Parallelverarbeitung angesprochen; ebenfalls fehlen zur Vertiefung weiterführende Literaturhinweise. Insbesondere SMP und MPP bieten für die praktische Realisierung wichtige Unterstützungshilfen. Wobei zur Verbesserung der Performance die Fähigkeit einiger DBMS Abfragen zu optimieren und parallel zu verarbeiten nützlich ist.
IT-Director 10/2000

"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended." -Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc.
 
In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include:
* The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and management
* Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently
* Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules
* The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses
* A framework for creating your technical architecture
* Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging
* Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance
* Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques
 
The CD-ROM supplies you with:
* Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities
* A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture
* Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book
* Checklists to use at key points in the project

"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended." -Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc. In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses.

Important topics include: The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and management Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses A framework for creating your technical architecture Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques The CD-ROM supplies you with: Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book Checklists to use at key points in the project

The ultimate guide to data warehouses!

"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book thatwill be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complexdetails of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended."
—Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc.

A complete blueprint for planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing high-performance data marts and data warehouses

In his bestselling book, "The Data Warehouse Toolkit", Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his co-authors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include:

· The Business Dimensional Lifecycle approach to data warehouse project planning and management
· Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently
· Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules
· The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses
· Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging
· A framework for creating your technical architecture
· Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance
· Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques

The CD-ROM supplies you with:
· Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities
· A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus ArchitectureTM
· Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book
· Checklists to use at key points in the project

RALPH KIMBALL has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of today’s most well-known speakers, consultants, and teachers internationally on data warehousing. He writes the "Data Warehouse Architecture" column for DBMS Magazine. Dr. Kimball’s co-authors have each founded their own very successful data warehouse consulting firms: Laura Reeves of StarSoft Solutions, Margy Ross of DecisionWorks, and Warren Thornthwaite of InfoDynamics.

"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended." -Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc.
 
In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include:
* The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and management
* Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently
* Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules
* The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses
* A framework for creating your technical architecture
* Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging
* Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance
* Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques
 
The CD-ROM supplies you with:
* Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities
* A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture
* Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book
* Checklists to use at key points in the project

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 (formerly DBMS) 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.