Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Documentation

  • Gathering Business Requirements for Data Warehouses

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    This presentation is our template that we use for “Gathering Business Requirements” workshop as part of the Data Management & Warehousing Data Warehouse Documentation Roadmap process The agenda of a workshop is normally: Overview of the process Why gather requirements like this? Types of requirement Understanding what we can do Business processes create data Understanding dimensions…

  • BI Business Requirements

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    Another ETIS presentation from Stockholm in October 2010 This presentation looks at what it takes to develop good business requirements for business intelligence projects. It starts with the proposition that  “70% of all documented requirements are worthless” – Why ? Written but never referred to (Shelf-ware) Out of date before they are built Cover the wrong things Can’t be…

  • Data Warehouse Documentation Roadmap

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    All projects need documentation and many companies provide templates as part of a methodology. This document describes the templates, tools and source documents used by Data Management & Warehousing. It serves two purposes: For projects using other methodologies or creating their own set of documents to use as a checklist. This allows the project to…

  • Overview Architecture for Enterprise Data Warehouses

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    This is the first of a series of papers published by Data Management & Warehousing to look at the implementation of Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions in large organisations using a design pattern approach. A design pattern provides a generic approach, rather than a specific solution. It describes the steps that architecture, design and build teams…