The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

Design, development and implementation of data warehouse and business intelligence systems, the industry standard for a full update

Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, since the first edition published in 1998, significantly changed the world of data storage. At that time, the data storage industry has come of age and advances of acceptance, the hardware and software have been incredible, and the first edition of this book promotion techniques have been adopted by almost all storage vendors and professionals in the data. Discuss the data source systems, cleaning, and add value to the delivery business: In addition, the "business intelligence" turned out to reflect long-term mission of the data warehouse.

Ralph Kimball and his colleagues, the methods of consultation and training based on their experience and their life cycle techniques have refined the original series. The authors first-hand data warehouse / business intelligence to understand the (DW / BI) will turn around faster than the organization needs to change. To this end, a system design DW / BI, develop, and is guided by the detailed steps to implement. They make better business decisions and the adaptive system that allows business users to learn how to create and analyze data.

Important new content and updates, this second edition of Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit again sets the standard data storage for the next ten years. Shows you how to:

• The data warehouse to identify and prioritize opportunities
• Create an architectural plan, select and products
• Model Flexible strong design size
• Create robust ETL
• Develop BI applications to provide data for professional users
• Good DW / BI environment, implement, and maintain

Kimball, a member of the writers. Each of the data warehouse and business intelligence consulting and training for over 15 years focused on the tools I've written other books in the series. Kimball Group and Kimball University learn more about www.kimballgroup.com.

With the three following books: The book also Kimball Warehouse Toolkit Classics Box Set (9780470479575 ISBN) can be used as part of the data obtained from:

• Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition (9780471200246)
• Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, 2nd Edition (9780470149775) 
• Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit (9780764567575)