| This course provides business
community and IT professionals with an intensive briefing on the latest
ideas, technologies, and techniques in data warehousing. It is designed
to bring participants up to speed with established best practises in building
and exploiting data warehouses. Leading-edge developments are also identified
and evaluated with an emphasis on what needs to be done today to prepare
for the future. The course draws on a wealth of direct experience on real-life
data warehouse projects in many industry sectors.
This course addresses the five key aspects
of data warehousing that are of crucial relevance in todays business environment. |
Data Warehousing
Clearing Up the Confusion
Monday, April 27,
10.45 - 17.00
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Todays key business needs targeted by
data ware-housing
Key application areas for data warehousing
Established best practices in planning,
design and implementation
Proven leading edge tools and techniques
for exploiting warehouse data
Analysis of the latest developments and
new trends in data warehousing
Just a sampling of a few of the topics
within this course;
Changing business environments and the
role of data warehousing
New marketing opportunities
Deregulation and globalization of
markets
Future users of data warehouses
Data warehousing and business process
reengineering revisited
Data warehousing and organization
re-design
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Data warehouse applications
Customer care
Sales planning, forecasting
and control
Product design and development
New application possibilities using
Intranets
Innovation and increased profitability
Applications for vertical industry
sectors
Building the data warehouse
Architectures
Integrating all the components
Data modeling and database design
Key design issues
Future directions in architectures
Data extraction and copy management
Meta data management
Helping data warehouse users
Key vendors and products
Methodology for data warehouse projects
Data warehouse infrastructures
Stages, activities and tasks needed
Planning, infrastructure development,
application development and systems integration phases
Causes of data pollution
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Data cleansing and data quality
Data ownership and data stewards
Security policies and principals
Data exploitation
SQL vs. OLAP vs. ROLAP
Warehouse access
Packaged applications
Groupware and workflow management
Internet access and the Web
Tool selection guidelines
Case studies and lessons learned
Banking
Retail
Utilities
Telecommunications
Manufacturing
Public sector
The future of data warehousing
Platform advances
Advances in tools and standards
System management and administration
The adaptive enterprise
The future of data marts
The mission-critical data warehouse
The future of operational data stores
and enterprise data servers
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SEAN KELLY
President,
Data Warehouse Network
This course has been designed and is presented
by Sean Kelly of the Data Warehouse Network. Sean is known worldwide as
a leading authority in data warehousing. He is the author of two best-selling
books in the field, entitled Data Warehousing The Route to Mass Customization,
and Data Warehousing in Action. Sean is also a founder of the Data
Warehouse Network, Europes leading supplier of support services to data
warehouse implementators, including research, consultancy, education, and
publications. |
