Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications "If you are looking for a complete treatment of business intelligence, then go no further than this book. Larissa T. Moss and Shaku Atre have covered all the bases in a cohesive and logical order, making it easy for the reader to follow their line of thought. From early design to ETL to physical database design, the book ties together all the components of business intelligence." --Bill Inmon, Inmon Enterprises This is the eBook version of the print title. The eBook edition contains the same content as the print edition. You will find instructions in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files.
Business Intelligence Roadmap is a visual guide to developing an effective business intelligence (BI) decision-support application. This book outlines a methodology that takes into account the complexity of developing applications in an integrated BI environment. The authors walk readers through every step of the process--from strategic planning to the selection of new technologies and the evaluation of application releases. The book also serves as a single-source guide to the best practices of BI projects.
Part I steers readers through the six stages of a BI project: justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction, and deployment. Each chapter describes one of sixteen development steps and the major activities, deliverables, roles, and responsibilities. All technical material is clearly expressed in tables, graphs, and diagrams.
Part II provides five matrices that serve as references for the development process charted in Part I. Management tools, such as graphs illustrating the timing and coordination of activities, are included throughout the book. The authors conclude by crystallizing their many years of experience in a list of dos, don'ts, tips, and rules of thumb.
Both the book and the methodology it describes are designed to adapt to the specific needs of individual stakeholders and organizations. The book directs business representatives, business sponsors, project managers, and technicians to the chapters that address their distinct responsibilities. The framework of the book allows organizations to begin at any step and enables projects to be scheduled and managed in a variety of ways.
Business Intelligence Roadmap is a clear and comprehensive guide to negotiating the complexities inherent in the development of valuable business intelligence decision-support applications. |
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... example, the penultimate tip, in the final chapter of the book, advises the reader to Implement your BI applications using the release concept. It is much better to deliver high-quality, partially functioning application releases over ...
... example, an ETL developer should read Step 9: Extract/ Transform/Load Design, Step 11: Extract/Transform/Load Development, and Step 15: Implementation.) 15 Implementation 16 Release Evaluation Who Should Read This Book xxix Technicians.
... example, online analytical processing (OLAP) • Click-stream analysis • Data mining • Forecasting • Business analysis ... Examples of BI decision-support databases include the following: • Enterprise-wide data warehouses • Data marts ...
... example, Figure 0.4 shows two iterations each for the Extract/Transform/ Load (ETL), Application, and Meta Data Repository subprojects. The approach presented in Business Intelligence Roadmap encourages the use of parallel development ...
... example, the ETL lead developer must be fully dedicated to lead the activities of the ETL track. All core team members brainstorm together, assign work to each other, review each other's deliverables, resolve issues, and make project ...