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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... file that already includes the step dependencies (shown in Figure 0.6 in Chapter 0) and the activity dependencies (shown in the flow charts in Chapter 19). In addition, the work breakdown structure contains some basic mandatory task ...
... file structures on different platforms. What makes the process even more difficult is that the keys for the same objects on different data sources usually do not match, the definitions for the same apparent data are often inconsistent ...
... file • Archive operational data • Merge two operational files for operational processing • Separate the operational reporting function from the operational update function Sometimes all you need to do to solve an operational problem is ...
... files) ✓Do we need new middleware? What will it cost? ✓Will the connection be permanent between the source files (or source databases) and the BI target databases? ✓Which of our hardware, software, and middleware is proprietary? Have ...
... Nonrelational Databases Relational Databases Application A Application B Flat Files Gateway Figure 2.3: Gateway Example DBMS Gateways DMBS gateways, a form of middleware, are generally. The Middleware Platform 57 The Middleware Platform.