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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
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by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, and Joy Mundy
Sales Rank: 20612
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List Price: $50.00
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Paperback: 636 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition January 10, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470149779
ISBN-13: 978-0470149775
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Description
- Presenting the much-anticipated Second Edition, which boasts nearly 40 percent new and revised coverage, reflecting the latest best practices
- This unparalleled tutorial approach covers everything from planning the data warehouse project to implementing the design and managing the data warehouse environment
- The Kimball Group has streamlined the lifecycle methodology to be more efficient and user-friendly based on their thousands of hours of experience in both consulting and training
- They have also revised various lifecycle topics, including dimensional modeling, data warehouse architecture, ETL, and Business Intelligence
- New sections at the end of every process and techniques chapter feature coverage of managing the effort and reducing risk, assuring quality, estimating considerations, Web site resources, and more
Back Cover Copy
A thorough update to the industry standard for designing, developing, and deploying data warehouse and business intelligence systems
The world of data warehousing has changed remarkably since the first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit was published in 1998. In that time, the data warehouse industry has reached full maturity and acceptance, hardware and software have made staggering advances, and the techniques promoted in the premiere edition of this book have been adopted by nearly all data warehouse vendors and practitioners. In addition, the term "business intelligence" emerged to reflect the mission of the data warehouse: wrangling the data out of source systems, cleaning it, and delivering it to add value to the business.
Ralph Kimball and his colleagues have refined the original set of Lifecycle methods and techniques based on their consulting and training experience. The authors understand first-hand that a data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) system needs to change as fast as its surrounding organization evolves. To that end, they walk you through the detailed steps of designing, developing, and deploying a DW/BI system. You'll learn to create adaptable systems that deliver data and analyses to business users so they can make better business decisions.
With substantial new and updated content, this second edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit again sets the standard in data warehousing for the next decade. It shows you how to: -
Identify and prioritize data warehouse opportunities -
Create an architecture plan and select products -
Design a powerful, flexible, dimensional model -
Build a robust ETL system -
Develop BI applications to deliver data to business users -
Deploy and sustain a healthy DW/BI environmentv
The authors are members of the Kimball Group. Each has focused on data warehousing and business intelligence consulting and education for more than 15 years; most have written other books in the Toolkit series. Learn more about the Kimball Group and Kimball University at www.kimballgroup.com.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The first edition, while very valuable and still relevant was getting long in the tooth - it was published 10 years ago. This book remains pragmatic and useful for just about every role assoiciated with the data warehouse and business intelligence. My favorite chapter is on Collecting the Requirements but you will find sections that will make a difference in your DW/BI project implementation and sustainance.
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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
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