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Data Warehousing - What's It All About? Learning to Walk in Seven League Boots

(Paper 141, SUGI 27 - Orlando, Florida, April 2002 [invited speaker])

A high-level view of some the issues (and opportunities) in incrementally building an enterprise-wide data warehouse.

This paper examines some of the factors that help make data warehouses work (and some that can trip you up!), including:
• Can you call your project "data warehouse"?
• Maintaining a business focus - prioritising for value
• Incremental building - how big are your steps?
• The relationship between data marts and the enterprise data warehouse

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