Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Basics
Forms Yes No
Level of Detail (in Detailed (Reveals a snapshot of ongoing business Summary (Multi-dimensional views of various kinds of
report) processes) business activities)
Database Design Highly normalized with many tables, Application Typically de-normalized with fewer tables - use of
oriented star schemas, Subject oriented
Queries Relatively standardized and simple queries Often complex queries involving aggregations
Returning relatively few records
3. Load
Facts Dim 1 Dim 2 Dim ...
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2. Transform
Table 1 Table 2 Table ...
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1. Extract
ERP
Table 1 Table 2 Table ...
Primary Key Primary Key Primary Key
Field 1 Field 1 Field 1
Field 2 Field 2 Field 2
Field ... Field ... Field ...
Architecture of a Data Warehouse
Business Intelligence - What are we talking about?
Non-ECC
Orders
Reporting
GL Entries
Aggregate
DATA INFORMATION
What is BI ?
BI Applications
Balanced Scorecard
Decision
Budgeting
Dash Board
Management
Simulation
Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Data Mining
Analysts
Report & Listing
Office Day
Month
A Sample Data Cube
Country
Mexico
sum
Dimension tables
Dimension tables are grouping of related data
Items.
Master Data is Referred as Characteristics
dimension
dimension dimension
fact
dimension dimension
•In a star schema, the ways in which we
characterize all transaction are collected together
in dimensions
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