Data Warehousing: Strategies, Technologies, and Techniques

Data warehouseing is key information management strategy for businesses that want to stay competitive into the next century. With this practical,information-packed sourcebook enterprise computing professionals will discover how to design and build an effective data warehousing system. Author Rob Mattison provides a well-organized,step-by-step plan and offers a valuable,vendor-independent examination of the available tools and products. He explains the key concepts of business process reengineering,client/server technology,systems architecture,online analytical processing (OLAP),and decision support systems (DS) that are critical to data warehousing.