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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By : John Heaton
Book Image

Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By: John Heaton

Overview of this book

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. This book steps through the lifecycle of building a data warehouse with key tips and techniques along the way. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology outlines the key ways to effectively use Oracle technology to deliver your business intelligence solution. This is a practical guide starting with key recipes for project management then moving onto project delivery. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology is a practical guide for performing key steps and functions on your project. This book starts with setting the foundation for a highly repeatable efficient project management approach by assessing your current methodology to see how suitable it is for a business intelligence program. We also learn to set up the project delivery phases to consistently estimate the effort for a project. Along the way we learn to create blueprints for the business intelligence solution that help to connect and map out the destination of the solution. We then move on to analyze requirements, sources, and data. Finally we learn to secure the data as it is an important asset within the organization and needs to be secured efficiently and effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Organizing your project team


Once you have identified your project team, it is important to organize your team efficiently. There are two major models to organize your team.

How to do it...

Depending on how you plan to run your project, you could choose one of the following models for your team:

Option 1: Model based on subject areas with multi-skilled resources.

  1. 1. Separate your team into business initiative and subject area resources:

Option 2: Model based on resource specialized skills.

  1. 1. Separate your teams based on technology and business skills:

There's more...

Option 2 is the more advanced model for an initiative which will run multiple subject areas concurrently. This model is effective if you have a good grasp of the methodology, and some experience.

Note

Option 1 is normally the best model to start your initiative with and then migrate to Option 2 at a later date.

See also

For more information on the different deliverables by the roles, refer to the work practices recipes, in Chapter 2, Establishing the Project.