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Distributed Data Warehousing Using Web Technology: How to Build a More Cost-Effective and...
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by R. A. Moeller
Sales Rank: 2054537
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Hardcover: 383 pages
Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition October 15, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814405886
ISBN-13: 978-0814405888
Product Dimensions:
9.6 x 7.9 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
How to transform raw data into knowledge--and empower businesses with a significant competitive edge!
What is a "data warehouse?" It's a database that's structured to support business decision making. A data warehouse organizes, analyzes, and synthesizes huge amounts of raw data--so that it's intelligible and useful to employees. Until recently, all that data would be stored in centralized, monolithic storage media. It was cumbersome to manage, slow to operate, and expensive to maintain.
Internet technology has changed all that forever! In this insightful book, managers and information technology professionals get a clear-eyed overview of what's required to set up and use distributed data warehouses--which utilize multiple computers (networked together via Internet technology) to store and access data as needed. The book takes a look at:
* Basic functions and benefits of a distributed data warehouse and what's required to set one up * Many of the complex technical issues involved, such as placement of functions and data, web-enabled computing technologies, object technologies, and more * The full spectrum of what a data warehouse can deliver--and how to exploit it * How to present and justify a business case for creating a data warehouse.
Book Info
An overview of the functions and capabilities of distributed data warehousing, from the basic functions of distributed data warehousing to its role in helping companies utilize the Internet and intranet environment. Covers a host of important topics and advocates timely use of the new technologies. DLC: Data warehousing.
Customer Reviews & Comments
My introduction to Data Warehousing was a water cooler discussion with a colleague just returned from a Data Warehousing workshop. The main topic of that discussion was the long development time required by data warehousing projects and how foolish it was start any project where the first "deliverable" to a business user was planned for three years hence. With the approach that Ms. Moeller presents in this book, however, data warehouse projects are made eminently manageable by planning a series of major deliverables spaced 3-6 months (not YEARS) apart - at a fraction of the cost of a full-blown "Data Warehouse." Data Warehousing projects no longer have to automatically connote the development of a "black hole." Potential readers should be aware that this book is not a "how-to-do-it." Rather, it focuses on what has to be done and how to approach a Data Warehousing project in general. One final note: having read Ms. Moeller's past articles in the journal "InfoDB", she continues to present very technical information in a lucid, clear writing style. I'm still amazed that I read each chapter straight through in one sitting. This is the first "technical book" I have read in a very long time about which I can make that statement.
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