Friday 7 September 2012

CHAPTER 8: ACCESSING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION - DATA WAREHOUSE

Assalamualaikum smua... :D
t0day i want t0 write about chapter 8. it is Accessing Organizational Information - Data Warehouse.

In this chapter i learn about the roles, purposes, the relationship between business intelligence and a data warehouse and etc. ok i will write what i understands in this chapter. :)

Data Warehouse Fundamentals :

  • Data warehouse - a logical collection of information -gathered from many different operational databases -that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.
  • primary purpose of a data warehouse is to aggregate information throughout an organization into a single repository decision-making purposes.
  • Extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) - a process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transform the information using a common set of interprise definitions, and loads the information into a data warehouse.
  • Data mart - contains a subset of data warehouse information.

Multidimensional Analysis and Data Mining : 
  • cube - common term for the representation of multidimensional information.

  • data mining - the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.
  • data-mining tool - uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information and infers rules that predict future behavior and guide decision making.
Information Cleansing or Scrubbing : 
  • is a process that weeds out and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect, or incomplete information.
Business Intelligence : 

  • information that people use to support their decision-making efforts.
  • principle BI enablers includes - technology, people and culture. 
ok that all fr0m me t0day.. bye u all.
g0od nite. . . :)


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