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Module 1
Data Warehouse Concepts and Architectures

Lesson 6: Data Warehouse Examples

Lesson Objectives
• Discuss data warehouse requirements in large retail firms
• Discuss data warehouse requirements in K-12 education
• Reflect on maturity of data warehouse development in
retail and education

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Data Warehouses in Retail

Pioneering data warehouse

deployment led by Walmart
Support business intelligence on
sites, products, pricing, inventory,
and vendors
Customized data warehouse
solutions by major DBMS vendors

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TPC-DS Data Warehouse
Operational Data Data Integration Business
Sources Processing Intelligence Support

Store
Store
Extract, Ad Hoc Queries
Transform, and
Load
Web

Reports

Catalog

Data Warehouse Trends

Inventory

Promotions
Data Mining
Analysis

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Retail Entities and Facts
Warehous Return
e Type
Shipment
Promotion Mode

Customer Date/Time

Call
Product Center

Product
sales and Web and
Store returns, catalog
Inventory pages
levels

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Data Warehouses in USA Education
Influenced by learning standards
at higher government levels

Local school districts with

autonomy
Cooperation across school
districts to satisfy reporting
requirements
Federated data warehouse
approach
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Federated Architecture

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SchoolView Portal

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School Entities and Facts
Subject

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demographics

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Summary
• Prominent examples of data warehouses in retail and
education
• Retail dominated by large firms with distributed stores and
multiple sales channels
• Education dominated by highly decentralized school
districts and standards imposed by higher levels of
government
• High level of maturity in both areas

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