The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit By Warren Thornthwaite, Bob
Becker, Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Joy Mundy (Paperback, ...

A thorough update to the industry standard for designing developing and deploying data warehouse and business intelligence systems The world of data warehousing has changed remarkably since the first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit was published in 1998 In that time the data warehouse industry has reached full maturity and acceptance hardware and software have made staggering advances and the techniques promoted in the premiere edition of this book have been adopted by nearly all data warehouse vendors and practitioners In addition the term business intelligence emerged to reflect the mission of the data warehouse wrangling the data out of source systems cleaning it and delivering it to add value to the business Ralph Kimball and his colleagues have refined the original set
of Lifecycle methods and techniques based on their consulting and training experience The authors understand first-hand that a data warehousingbusiness intelligence (DWBI) system needs to change as fast as its surrounding organization evolves To that end they walk you through the detailed steps of designing developing and deploying a DWBI system You'll learn to create adaptable systems that deliver data and analyses to business users so they can make better business decisions With substantial new and updated content this second edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit again sets the standard in data warehousing for the next decade It shows you how to Identify and prioritize data warehouse opportunities Create an architecture plan and select products Design a powerful flexible
dimensional model Build a robust ETL system Develop BI applications to deliver data to business users Deploy and sustain a healthy DWBI environment The authors are members of the Kimball Group Each has focused on data warehousing and business intelligence consulting and education for more than 15 years; most have written other books in the Toolkit series Learn more about the Kimball Group and Kimball University at wwwkimballgroupcom This book is also available as part of the Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit Classics Box Set (ISBN 9780470479575) with the following 3 books The Data Warehouse Toolkit 2nd Edition (9780471200246) The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit 2nd Edition (9780470149775) The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit (9780764567575)