Agile Data Warehouse Design is a step-by-step guide for capturing Data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) requirements and turning them into high performance Dimensional models in the most direct by modelstorming (Data Modeling + brainstorming) with BI stakeholders.
Business stakeholders feel ownership of the Data Warehouse they have created, and can already imagine how they will use it to answer their business questions..
The result is everyone thinks dimensionally from the outset! Developers understand how to efficiently implement Dimensional Modeling solutions.
BEAM provides tools and techniques that will encourage DW/BI designers and developers to move away from their keyboards and entity relationship based tools and model interactively with their colleagues.
The book describes BEAM, an Agile approach to Dimensional modeling, for improving communication between Data Warehouse designers, BI stakeholders and the whole DW/BI development team.
Agile Data Warehouse Design is a step-by-step guide for capturing Data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) requirements and turning them into high performance Dimensional models in the most direct by modelstorming (Data Modeling + brainstorming) with BI stakeholders