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SRI KRISHNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY
M.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering
21CSI501 DATA WAREHOUSING AND MINING
MODULE 1
1.4 FRAMEWORK FOR DATA WAREHOUSE DESIGN
Faculty - Dr.D.Prabha Business Analysis Framework for data ware house design
Advantage of Data warehouse for business analysts :
• Provides Competitive advantage – Presenting relevant information, measures performance to win over the competitors. • Enhance Business Productivity • Facilitates Customer relationship management • Cost Reduction by tracking trends, patterns, and exceptions over long periods To design an effective data warehouse, need to ◦ Understand and analyse business needs. ◦ Construct business analysis framework. Four different views regarding Data Warehouse Design : Top –down view : ◦ Allows selection of relevant information regarding data warehouse. ◦ Information matches current and future needs. Cont... Data Source View : ● Exposes the information captured, stored and managed by systems. ● This information is documented at various levels of detail and accuracy from individual data source table to integrated. Data Warehouse View : ● Fact and Dimension table. ● Represents the information inside data warehouse. Cont... Business Query View : ● Data perspective in the data warehouse from the end user’s point of view. Skills : Building and using data warehouse is a complex task because it requires : ●Business skills ●Technology Skills ●Program Management Skills Cont... Business skills : Building a data warehouse involves ● Understanding how systems store and manage their data. ● Extractors – transfer data from system to data warehouse. ● Warehouse refresh software – keeps the data warehouse up to date. ● Data Warehouse involves significance of data it contains as well as understanding and translating the business needs into queries satisfied by the data warehouse. Cont... Technology skills : Required for analysts to understand ●To make assessments from information and derive facts. ●To make conclusion from historic information ●Ability to discover patterns and trends based on history.
Program Management skills :
●Need to Interface with many technologies, vendors and end users in order to deliver results in a timely and cost effective. Recommended Approach