This reference provides strategic, theoretical and practical insight into three information management technologies: data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data mining. It shows how these technologies can work together to create a new class of information delivery system: the information factory. The book includes models and indexing techniques, and discusses application development using OLAP tools. Alex Berson is the author of "Client/Server Computing", and co-author (with George Anderson) of "Client/Server Database Design with Sybase" and "Sybase and Client/Server Computing".
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Optimize your organization's data delivery system! Improving data delivery is a top priority in business computing today. This comprehensive, cutting-edge guide can help-by showing you how to effectively integrate data mining and other powerful data warehousing technologies. You'll learn how to: Use data warehousing to establish a competitive advantage; Solve business problems faster by exploiting online analytical processing (OLAP); Evaluate various data warehousing solutions (including SMP and MPP, parallel database management systems, metadata, OLAP, etc.); Leverage your data warehousing utility via the Internet, client/server computing, and various data mining tools. In addition to providing a detailed overview and strategic analysis of the available data warehousing technologies, the book serves as a practical guide to data warehouse database design, star and snowflake schema approaches, multidimensional and mutirelational models, advanced indexing techniques, and data mining. You'll also learn how to compare different data mine technologies and products, and understand how they fit into your overall business and data processes. Intended for IS professionals as well as strategic planners, this fascinating book can be well relied upon as the essential reference to the standards, tools, technologies-and possibilities-of data warehousing today.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, considering too much AND too little information,
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This review is from: Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and OLAP (Data Warehousing/Data Management) (Hardcover)
If you are an IT professional with a good breadth of knowledge about the structure of enterprise data, systems and statistics, yet you are not sure what Data Warehousing, Data Mining or OLAP are, and are not even sure you know how to spell them, then this book is for you. (Rather limited audience if you ask me)For the technically savvy, this book is excellent in covering, in minute detail, all of the possible needs, uses and commercial systems/products available to do Data Warehousing, Data Mining and/or OLAP. The tremendous amount of possibilities naturally causes this volume to lack the depth to actually guide a reader to an understanding of how they can implement these concepts. I do complement the author in possessing/researching such a tremendous amount of material. A downside is the fact that this book is instantly outdated because it is describing current technology (As of the writing of this book). For non-technical Management and Executives however, this book will likely only confuse you to death and cause you to frown vehemently at the next person who recommends a Data Warehousing or OLAP strategy for your organization. If you fit the profile that should read this book however, this is a great primer/eye opener to a rather large subject area called Enterprise Intelligence. Break out your reading glasses, (the print is small) set aside a good chunk of time, (the book is huge) and read it. Then find the suitable follow-up books that are in line with your new interests with Enterprise Intelligence. Keep a narrow focus when picking one of these. If you are a manager or executive, hire a team. This is a lot of stuff, and the need for this stuff is so painfully apparent that your business can not wait 4 years for you to learn this stuff.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Overview of every DBMS buzzword, but lacks of substance,
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This review is from: Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and OLAP (Data Warehousing/Data Management) (Hardcover)
Despite the size of this book, no in-depth details are given about Data Warehousing or OLAP. Product evaluations are minimal to the point of being useless. (OLAP product descriptions include Powerplay , but not Essbase or Express.) The data mining chapters are useful, but other books contain much more detail.I would recommend sticking to books dedicated to single topics such as Kimball's "Datawarehouse Toolkit" and Thomsen's "OLAP Solutions"
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book- the olapmessageboard highly recommends this,
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This review is from: Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and OLAP (Data Warehousing/Data Management) (Hardcover)
As some one who makes a living doing OLAP development, I thought the Author does a great job explaining the similarities and differences between OLAP and relational analysis. An emphasis is DW and DM was obviously present. So not the best OLAP book but maybe the best (or one of) in total architecture.
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