Data Warehousing In Action

Data Warehousing in Action provides the tools to harness data and transform it into useful customized bytes of information. This book is a fully comprehensive account of how to proceed with the data warehouse project in a clear step-by-step fashion. It reviews the marketplace, the technology, the design issues, and the management issues. It includes real company experiences from research carried out in 30 countries. It focuses on the topics needed to design and implement a meaningful data warehousing architecture including: Identifying industrial applications for data warehouses; Frameworks for building a data warehouse; Choosing the right architecture and technologies; Outline methodologies for managing the project; and future proofing the design.· Planning the Data Warehouse· Integrating the Data--The Data Warehouse Infrastructure· Exploiting the Data--The Data Warehouse Applications· Looking to the Future--Next Generation Data Warehouse