A data warehouse is the central repository of Information for your organization. Data warehouse helps organizations to support and manage business intelligent (BI) activities. Data flows into the Data warehouse from the organization's operational system.
- Extracted database from SAP, implemented data modeling technique to transform operational system data.
- After transformation loaded data and used BI to gain some valuable insight.
In this project I have taken reference from:
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Third Edition By Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross
- Regarding dimensional modeling and datawarehouse planning.
- Kimball Lifecycle
- Fact Table techniques- to identify facts based on business represntative requirement.
- Dimension Modeling technique and slowly changing dimension attributes.
- OLAP cube and Star Schemas.
- Datawarehouse Architecture:
- Operational Source System.
- ETL system.
- Data Presentation area.
- Business Intelligence Applications.
- Four Step Design Process:
- Selecting business process.
- Declare the grain.
- Identify dimensions.
- Identify the facts.