The Data Warehouse Mentor Practical Data Warehouse And Business Intelligence Insights

Develop a custom, agile data warehousing and business intelligence architecture Empower your users and drive better decision making across your enterprise with detailed instructions and best practices from an expert developer and trainer. The Data Warehouse Mentor: Practical Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Insights shows how to plan, design, construct, and administer an integrated end-to-end DW/BI solution. Learn how to choose appropriate components, build an enterprise data model, configure data marts and data warehouses, establish data flow, and mitigate risk. Change management, data governance, and security are also covered in this comprehensive guide. Understand the components of BI and data warehouse systems Establish project goals and implement an effective deployment plan Build accurate logical and physical enterprise data models Gain insight into your company's transactions with data mining Input, cleanse, and normalize data using ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) techniques Use structured input files to define data requirements Employ top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid design methodologies Handle security and optimize performance using data governance tools Robert Laberge is the founder of several Internet ventures and a principle consultant for the IBM Industry Models and Assets Lab, which has a focus on data warehousing and business intelligence solutions.

Develop a custom, agile data warehousing and business intelligence architecture Empower your users and drive better decision making across your enterprise with detailed instructions and best practices from an expert developer and trainer. The Data Warehouse Mentor: Practical Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Insights shows how to plan, design, construct, and administer an integrated end-to-end DW/BI solution. Learn how to choose appropriate components, build an enterprise data model, configure data marts and data warehouses, establish data flow, and mitigate risk. Change management, data governance, and security are also covered in this comprehensive guide. Understand the components of BI and data warehouse systems Establish project goals and implement an effective deployment plan Build accurate logical and physical enterprise data models Gain insight into your company's transactions with data mining Input, cleanse, and normalize data using ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) techniques Use structured input files to define data requirements Employ top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid design methodologies Handle security and optimize performance using data governance tools Robert Laberge is the founder of several Internet ventures and a principle consultant for the IBM Industry Models and Assets Lab, which has a focus on data warehousing and business intelligence solutions.

An unparalleled collection of recommended guidelines for data warehousing and business intelligence pioneered by Ralph Kimball and his team of colleagues from the Kimball Group. Recognized and respected throughout the world as the most influential leaders in the data warehousing industry, Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group have written articles covering more than 250 topics that define the field of data warehousing. For the first time, the Kimball Group's incomparable advice, design tips, and best practices have been gathered in this remarkable collection of articles, which spans a decade of data warehousing innovation. Each group of articles is introduced with original commentaries that explain their role in the overall lifecycle methodology developed by the Kimball Group. These practical, hands-on articles are fully updated to reflect current practices and terminology and cover the complete lifecycle—including project planning, requirements gathering, dimensional modeling, ETL, and business intelligence and analytics. This easily referenced collection is nothing less than vital if you are involved with data warehousing or business intelligence in any capacity.

This textbook covers all central activities of data warehousing and analytics, including transformation, preparation, aggregation, integration, and analysis. It discusses the full spectrum of the journey of data from operational/transactional databases, to data warehouses and data analytics; as well as the role that data warehousing plays in the data processing lifecycle. It also explains in detail how data warehouses may be used by data engines, such as BI tools and analytics algorithms to produce reports, dashboards, patterns, and other useful information and knowledge. The book is divided into six parts, ranging from the basics of data warehouse design (Part I - Star Schema, Part II - Snowflake and Bridge Tables, Part III - Advanced Dimensions, and Part IV - Multi-Fact and Multi-Input), to more advanced data warehousing concepts (Part V - Data Warehousing and Evolution) and data analytics (Part VI - OLAP, BI, and Analytics). This textbook approaches data warehousing from the case study angle. Each chapter presents one or more case studies to thoroughly explain the concepts and has different levels of difficulty, hence learning is incremental. In addition, every chapter has also a section on further readings which give pointers and references to research papers related to the chapter. All these features make the book ideally suited for either introductory courses on data warehousing and data analytics, or even for self-studies by professionals. The book is accompanied by a web page that includes all the used datasets and codes as well as slides and solutions to exercises.

Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on everyone's mind: Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications? Big data is emerging from the realm of one-off projects to mainstream business adoption; however, the real value of big data is not in the overwhelming size of it, but more in its effective use. Big Data Imperatives describes the complementary nature of traditional data warehouses and big-data analytics platforms and how they feed each other. This book aims to bring the big data and analytics realms together with a greater focus on architectures that leverage the scale and power of big data and the ability to integrate and apply analytics principles to data which earlier was not accessible. This book can also be used as a handbook for practitioners; helping them on methodology,technical architecture, analytics techniques and best practices. At the same time, this book intends to hold the interest of those new to big data and analytics by giving them a deep insight into the realm of big data.

Unlike popular belief, Data Warehouse is not a single tool but a collection of software tools. A data warehouse will collect data from diverse sources into a single database. Using Business Intelligence tools, meaningful insights are drawn from this data. The best thing about “Learn Data Warehousing in 1 Day" is that it is small and can be completed in a day. With this e-book, you will be enough knowledge to contribute and participate in a Data warehouse implementation project. The book covers upcoming and promising technologies like Data Lakes, Data Mart, ELT (Extract Load Transform) amongst others. Following are detailed topics included in the book Table Of Content Chapter 1: What Is Data Warehouse? 1. What is Data Warehouse? 2. Types of Data Warehouse 3. Who needs Data warehouse? 4. Why We Need Data Warehouse? 5. Data Warehouse Tools Chapter 2: Data Warehouse Architecture 1. Characteristics of Data warehouse 2. Data Warehouse Architectures 3. Datawarehouse Components 4. Query Tools Chapter 3: ETL Process 1. What is ETL? 2. Why do you need ETL? 3. ETL Process 4. ETL tools Chapter 4: ETL Vs ELT 1. What is ETL? 2. Difference between ETL vs. ELT Chapter 5: Data Modeling 1. What is Data Modelling? 2. Types of Data Models 3. Characteristics of a physical data model Chapter 6: OLAP 1. What is Online Analytical Processing? 2. Types of OLAP systems 3. Advantages and Disadvantages of OLAP Chapter 7: Multidimensional Olap (MOLAP) 1. What is MOLAP? 2. MOLAP Architecture 3. MOLAP Tools Chapter 8: OLAP Vs OLTP 1. What is the meaning of OLAP? 2. What is the meaning of OLTP? 3. Difference between OLTP and OLAP Chapter 9: Dimensional Modeling 1. What is Dimensional Model? 2. Elements of Dimensional Data Model 3. Attributes 4. Difference between Dimension table vs. Fact table 5. Steps of Dimensional Modelling 6. Rules for Dimensional Modelling Chapter 10: Star and SnowFlake Schema 1. What is Multidimensional schemas? 2. What is a Star Schema? 3. What is a Snowflake Schema? 4. Difference between Start Schema and Snowflake Chapter 11: Data Mart 1. What is Data Mart? 2. Type of Data Mart 3. Steps in Implementing a Datamart Chapter 12: Data Mart Vs Data Warehouse 1. What is Data Warehouse? 2. What is Data Mart? 3. Differences between a Data Warehouse and a Data Mart Chapter 13: Data Lake 1. What is Data Lake? 2. Data Lake Architecture 3. Key Data Lake Concepts 4. Maturity stages of Data Lake Chapter 14: Data Lake Vs Data Warehouse 1. What is Data Warehouse? 2. What is Data Lake? 3. Key Difference between the Data Lake and Data Warehouse Chapter 15: What Is Business Intelligence? 1. What is Business Intelligence 2. Why is BI important? 3. How Business Intelligence systems are implemented? 4. Four types of BI users Chapter 16: Data Mining 1. What is Data Mining? 2. Types of Data 3. Data Mining Process 4. Modelling 5. Data Mining Techniques Chapter 17: Data Warehousing Vs Data Mining 1. What is Data warehouse? 2. What Is Data Mining? 3. Difference between Data mining and Data Warehousing?

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The final edition of the incomparable data warehousing and business intelligence reference, updated and expanded The Kimball Group Reader, Remastered Collection is the essential reference for data warehouse and business intelligence design, packed with best practices, design tips, and valuable insight from industry pioneer Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group. This Remastered Collection represents decades of expert advice and mentoring in data warehousing and business intelligence, and is the final work to be published by the Kimball Group. Organized for quick navigation and easy reference, this book contains nearly 20 years of experience on more than 300 topics, all fully up-to-date and expanded with 65 new articles. The discussion covers the complete data warehouse/business intelligence lifecycle, including project planning, requirements gathering, system architecture, dimensional modeling, ETL, and business intelligence analytics, with each group of articles prefaced by original commentaries explaining their role in the overall Kimball Group methodology. Data warehousing/business intelligence industry's current multi-billion dollar value is due in no small part to the contributions of Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group. Their publications are the standards on which the industry is built, and nearly all data warehouse hardware and software vendors have adopted their methods in one form or another. This book is a compendium of Kimball Group expertise, and an essential reference for anyone in the field. Learn data warehousing and business intelligence from the field's pioneers Get up to date on best practices and essential design tips Gain valuable knowledge on every stage of the project lifecycle Dig into the Kimball Group methodology with hands-on guidance Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group have continued to refine their methods and techniques based on thousands of hours of consulting and training. This Remastered Collection of The Kimball Group Reader represents their final body of knowledge, and is nothing less than a vital reference for anyone involved in the field.