Archive for May, 2008

Building The Vision of a Data Warehouse

Building the vision is the stage where the first production deliverable is produced. This is typically the smallest component of the data warehouse. that adds business benefit. For example, this stage will probably build the major infrastructure components for extracting and loading data, but limit them to the extraction and load of one or two […]

Business Requirements and Technical Blueprint

In order to produce a set of production-quality deliverables that grow to a full solution, the data warehouse manager must make sure that the overall requirements are understood, and that the overall system architecture is in place. The business requirements and technical blueprint phases are designed to address those two points. By understanding the business […]