Lesson 2

 A data warehouse is an enterprise system

used for the analysis and reporting of
DATA structured and semi-structured data from
WAREHOUSI multiple sources, such as point-of-sale
NG transactions, marketing automation,
customer relationship management, and
more.
  They can consolidate and integrate
massive amounts of current and
historical data in one place and are
DATA designed to give a long-range view of
WAREHOUSI data over time. These data warehouse
NG capabilities have made data warehousing
a primary staple of enterprise analytics
that help support
informed business decisions.
  A data warehouse is a vital component
of business intelligence. That wider term
DATA encompasses the information
WAREHOUSI infrastructure that modern businesses use
NG to track their past successes and failures
and inform their decisions for the future.
  A data warehouse is the storage of information over time by a
business or other organization.
 New data is periodically added by people in various key
departments such as marketing and sales.
 The warehouse becomes a library of historical data that can be
retrieved and analyzed in order to inform decision-making in
KEY POINTS the business.
 The key factors in building an effective data warehouse include
defining the information that is critical to the organization and
identifying the sources of the information.
 A database is designed to supply real-time information. A data
warehouse is designed as an archive of historical information.
  The need to warehouse data evolved as
businesses began relying on computer
systems to create, file, and retrieve
How a Data important business documents. The
Warehouse concept of data warehousing was
Works introduced in 1988 by IBM researchers
Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy.
  There are certain steps that are taken to maintain a data
warehouse. One step is data extraction, which involves
gathering large amounts of data from multiple source
points. After a set of data has been compiled, it goes
through data cleaning, the process of combing through
it for errors and correcting or excluding any that are
Maintaining a found.

Data  The cleaned-up data is then converted from a database

Warehouse format to a warehouse format. Once stored in the
warehouse, the data goes through sorting,
consolidating, and summarizing, so that it will be
easier to use. Over time, more data is added to the
warehouse as the various data sources are updated
  Data warehouses help you run
DATA logical queries, build accurate
WAREHOUSI forecasting models, improve real-
NG DESIGN time data analysis, and identify
trends impacting your organization.
 1. Gather Requirements: Aligning
8 steps to data the business goals and needs of
warehouse different departments with the
design
overall data warehouse project
 2. Set Up Environments: This
step is about creating three
8 steps to data environments for data warehouse
warehouse
development, testing, and
design
production, each running on
separate servers
 3. Data Modeling: Design the
8 steps to data data warehouse schema,
warehouse including the fact tables and
design dimension tables, to support the
business requirements.
 3. Data Modeling: Design the
8 steps to data data warehouse schema,
warehouse including the fact tables and
design dimension tables, to support the
business requirements.
 4. Develop Your ETL Process:
ETL stands for Extract,
8 steps to data Transform, and Load. This
warehouse
process is how data gets moved
design
from its source into your
warehouse.
8 steps to data 5.OLAP Cube Design: Design
warehouse OLAP cubes to support analysis
design and reporting requirements.
 8. Establish a Rollout Plan:
Determine how the data warehouse
8 steps to data will be introduced to the
warehouse organization, which groups or
design individuals will have access to it,
and how the data will be presented to
these users.
 7.Optimize Queries: Optimizing
8 steps to data queries ensures that the system
warehouse can handle large amounts of data
design
and respond quickly to queries.
 7.Optimize Queries: Optimizing
8 steps to data queries ensures that the system
warehouse can handle large amounts of data
design
and respond quickly to queries.
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you decide between the
two approaches.