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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

Adding hierarchies to your semantic data model


During your requirement gathering, you have collected your hierarchies, groups, and drill paths. This needs to be added to your semantic data model.

Getting ready

Review your requirements and find all the columns which are included in groupings, drill paths, or hierarchies.

How to do it...

Hierarchies, drills, and groupings are ways in which people consolidate information. The examples can include the following:

  • Hierarchy: As a user, I expand country to see invoices by city

  • Groupings: Show me all the invoice dollars by product

  • Drill: From product category, I want to drill down to and see all the dollars via SKU

These are different ways in which business can articulate the need to group attributes at higher levels, and then navigate to lower levels to see the detail. From a technical perspective, there are different ways to solve these problems. From a semantic model, we are interested in the perceived relationship between the attributes and recording...