Implementing a data warehouse for success and deploying to the web
Your Data Warehouse: A Business Success or Science Project?
The decision to try and reap the benefits of a data warehouse has been made. Now what? The instinctive reaction of many IT Groups is to jump right into "speeds and feeds" mode and begin the vendor interrogation process. How big can we make it? How long to load umpteen terabytes? How do we index/partition/distribute/manage this thing? How do we sift through the vendor hype? The successful decision support solutions typically start with another line of questioning entirely. A business based methodology is needed to plan, implement, and support a data warehouse solution that will meet the specific goals of the users.
The following process can be used to ensure that the exhaustive efforts involved in implementing a data warehouse result in measurable benefits in a short time-frame, at a reasonable and justifiable cost while preserving the sanity of those chartered with the implementation.
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