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MANAGING THE DATA WAREHOUSE:

Maximizing Data Value While Minimizing Data Costs


Why this Course?

The data warehouse can be a competitive advantage dream or a costly nightmare. This seminar addresses how to plan and design the data warehouse to support competitive advantage uses–even for potential uses not thought of today. You learn how to increase value of operational data resources coupled with data from external resources. A key focus is how to manage the integrity and consistency of the data within source databases and the data warehouse. You learn guidelines for how to avoid pitfalls to data warehouse.

Addressed are the critical success factors of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the data warehouse for maximum value.

 


Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this seminar, you will be able to:

  • Defining objectives for the data warehouse–why are we doing this?
  • Developing the data warehouse data architecture–what do we need in it?
  • Data sources–where do we get the right data?
  • Data acquisition–how do we get data with the right quality?
  • Information stewardship–who’s in charge here?
  • Making information politics work–"not with my data, you don’t!"
  • Exploiting warehouse data for competitive advantage–shouldn’t what goes in, come out?
  • Metrics for data warehouse success–how do we know we have succeeded?
Audience: Data warehouse managers and staff, DRM managers and staff, and IT management and staff involved in planning, implementing and managing a data warehouse

 

Format: Lecture with discussion
Duration:
1-2 Days
Pre-requisites: Basic understanding of data management principles

 

 

Course Outline:

 

1. Data Warehouse: Introduction and Strategy

  • Data warehouse defined
  • Data warehouse components
  • Data warehouse characteristics
  • Objectives data warehouse must achieve
  • How the data warehouse fits into an information management strategy
  • Relationship of data warehouse and data resource management
  • The real reason data warehouse has come about–how to avoid the mistakes of the past

 

2. Data Warehouse Architecture Design

  • Relationship of the data warehouse data model and enterprise and operational data models
  • Defining subject areas for the data warehouse
  • Determining what data belongs in the data warehouse
  • Developing the data warehouse data model
  • Anticipate analysis and data warehouse design

 

3. Source to Target Management

  • Record of origin, record of reference and target data
  • Identifying data sources
  • Mapping source data to the target warehouse model
  • How to design the transformations and extensions for the data warehouse
  • Measuring and managing the source data

 

4. The Information Directory

  • Objectives and purpose of the information directory
  • The role of repository in data warehouse
  • Defining technical metadata requirements
  • Defining business metadata requirements

 

 

5. Implementing the Data Warehouse

  • Loading the data warehouse
  • Determining the refresh schedule
  • Documenting currency of warehouse data

 

6. Exploiting the Data Warehouse

  • Identifying decision support and executive information support processes
  • Developing education for the knowledge worker
  • Thinking outside the box: the role of the data warehouse

 

7. Managing the Data Warehouse for Success

  • Critical Success factors
  • What management must know
  • The role of information stewardship in the data warehouse
  • Handling information politics
  • Establishing metrics for success
  • Measuring data warehouse performance and value

 

8. Beyond the Warehouse

  • Leveraging the data warehouse experience for operational data improvement
  • From data to knowledge management

 

 

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