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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

Defining your data retention requirements


Data retention, or how long information is accessible within the business intelligence and data warehouse solution, is a key requirement. It affects the way information is sourced and the capacity of the hardware required for the project.

Getting ready

Understand any regulatory requirements around the information you are planning to load into the solution and the business requirements to retain information. Data retention is not limited to the length of time information is kept or accessible, but also covers how changes to the information over time are recorded. For this, you will want to understand the level of information you require to store for each business entity.

How to do it...

Data retention not only affects the way information is stored and retained, but also the necessary resources required to keep the information. Not gathering this requirement can have disastrous effects on the success of your project.

  1. 1. Open your requirements, and enter...