- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (27 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 047125195X
- ISBN-13: 978-0471251958
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 967,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword
Each chapter is ... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses.
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"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.
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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Format:Paperback
I highly recommend this book and I think that it's a very good complement to Ralph Kimball books. It's based on the same principles and theory, and expands the number of practical examples based on real industry implementation, so if you are lucky you can find many tips and data models that can be immediately applied in your projects.
You need to read the Kimball books first in order to fully understand this one, and of course some of the example are based on US companies, but most of the material can be immediately applied to other markets and Countries as well (like Italy where I work).
I think that the last chapters (13/14/15) which deal with topics like presenting information and the process to build a DW are a little less interesting, but they still contain some useful tips.
You need to read the Kimball books first in order to fully understand this one, and of course some of the example are based on US companies, but most of the material can be immediately applied to other markets and Countries as well (like Italy where I work).
I think that the last chapters (13/14/15) which deal with topics like presenting information and the process to build a DW are a little less interesting, but they still contain some useful tips.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
A good handbook on dimensional modeling
4 April 2001
Format:Paperback
If you do not have 'The Data Warehouse Toolkit' by Ralph Kimball yet, you may want to buy this book. The techniques and approaches discussed in these two books are almost the same. The way this book is structured is very much alike that of the Kimball's book. But I liked the fact that the chapters are dedicated to particular business areas, not particular industries. In the chapter about marketing you will find examples for three industries. I liked Chapter 13, 'Presenting Infomation' which is full of tips on effective reporting. I liked also the chapter on financial reporting which gives a technical reader basic ideas of what finance is about. You will learn about balance sheets, income statments, cost allocation from the point of view of a data modeler. Of course, the book has all the terms and techniques one has to know to successfully build dimensional models. I did not like though the last two chapters which deal with methodology questions. You will only get a slight idea about how to integrate dimensional modeling into your data warehousing project. You will have to buy one of those books on methodologies to get a better insight into the question. In general, the book is very interesting. I gave it four stars for minor flaws - no one is perfect!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Solve business issues with these DW plans
26 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
The authors have written a stunning example of how to make complex issues simple for both newcomers and the experienced.
If you have no idea of what the problems are in a product or service fulfillment business or any other of a variety of industries, you can look them up here and get an overview of the problems and a simple design of a star schema that can help resolve the issues.
Invaluable for both IT types, Business Analysts and Consultants who want to get beyond the theory and into the real world.
Follows Kimball's teachings closely which makes the content even more valuable for those who use "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" as their bible.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Data warehouse data models for real business problems
1 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
What is great about this book is that it discusses design issues in the context of real and common business problems that data warehouses address. Most authors on data warehousing make abstract assertions about the strengths of data warehousing. This intelligent book gives the reader the material to make up his own mind as to what benefits data warehousing brings to a business.
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