Data warehousing fundamentals for IT professionals

Cutting-edge content and guidance from a data warehousing expert-now expanded to reflect field trends Data warehousing has revolutionized the way businesses in a wide variety of industries perform analysis and make strategic decisions. Since the first edition of Data Warehousing Fundamentals, numero...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ponniah, Paulraj (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons c2010.
Edición:2nd ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628180606719
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  • DATA WAREHOUSING FUNDAMENTALS FOR IT PROFESSIONALS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART 1 OVERVIEW AND CONCEPTS; 1 THE COMPELLING NEED FOR DATA WAREHOUSING; 2 DATA WAREHOUSE: THE BUILDING BLOCKS; 3 TRENDS IN DATA WAREHOUSING; PART 2 PLANNING AND REQUIREMENTS; 4 PLANNING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT; 5 DEFINING THE BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS; 6 REQUIREMENTS AS THE DRIVING FORCE FOR DATA WAREHOUSING; PART 3 ARCHITECTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE; 7 ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS; 8 INFRASTRUCTURE AS THE FOUNDATION FOR DATA WAREHOUSING; 9 THE SIGNIFICANT ROLE OF METADATA; PART 4 DATA DESIGN AND DATA PREPARATION
  • 10 PRINCIPLES OF DIMENSIONAL MODELING11 DIMENSIONAL MODELING: ADVANCED TOPICS; 12 DATA EXTRACTION, TRANSFORMATION, AND LOADING; 13 DATA QUALITY: A KEY TO SUCCESS; PART 5 INFORMATION ACCESS AND DELIVERY; 14 MATCHING INFORMATION TO THE CLASSES OF USERS; 15 OLAP IN THE DATA WAREHOUSE; 16 DATA WAREHOUSING AND THE WEB; 17 DATA MINING BASICS; PART 6 IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE; 18 THE PHYSICAL DESIGN PROCESS; 19 DATA WAREHOUSE DEPLOYMENT; 20 GROWTH AND MAINTENANCE; ANSWERS TO SELECTED EXERCISES; APPENDIX A: PROJECT LIFE CYCLE STEPS AND CHECKLISTS; APPENDIX B: CRITICAL FACTORS FOR SUCCESS
  • APPENDIX C: GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING VENDOR SOLUTIONSAPPENDIX D: HIGHLIGHTS OF VENDORS AND PRODUCTS; APPENDIX E: REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES OF BEST PRACTICES; REFERENCES; GLOSSARY; INDEX