June 1998
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 59m
English
Overview
"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword.
Let the experts show you how to customize data warehouse designs for real business needs in Data Warehouse Design Solutions.
To effectively design a data warehouse, you have to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows you how business managers in different corporate functions actually use data warehouses to make decisions. You'll get a rich set of data warehouse designs that flow from realistic business cases. Two top experts show you how to customize your data warehouse designs for real-life business needs including:
- Sales and marketing
- Production and inventory management
- Budgeting and financial reporting
- Quality control
- Product delivery and fulfillment
- Strategic business analysis such as determining market share, rates of return on investment, and other key analytic ratios.
CD-ROM includes
All sample data warehouse designs with accompanying preformatted reports in HTML for specific business uses such as marketing, sales, and financial analysis.
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