Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse

This book presents a collection of articles and essays written by data warehousing practitioners who have been pioneers in the field. The articles focus on how to plan and design a data warehouse project, capturing the state of the art in an extremely volatile field.* The book is organized into four sections - * Introduction. * Planning the Data Warehouse. * Designing the Data Warehouse. * Some Case Studies. * Covers key data warehousing issues including: developing a strategy, justifying the investment, architectures, optimizing database design, multidimensional models, and metadata repositories. * Includes two real-world case studies of successful data warehousing projects at Harris Semiconductor and the Naval Surface Warfare Center. * Edited by the President of The Data Warehousing Institute, a neutral forum where data warehouse users and vendors come together to consider critical issues. * One chapter is dedicated to helping managers avoid mistakes that can limit the effectiveness of a data warehouse. * Once the data warehouse is in place, this book provides guidance on helping end users make the most of it.