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Version 1.0 Module BI1-M2 Data Warehouse
Author Lorraine Gardiner
Paul Hawking Architecture
Robert Jovanovic
Product BI Platform: Data Warehousing
None Architecture Alternatives
Conceptual Layers
Focus
Data warehousing overview
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Common BI Architecture
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Source: Eckerson, W. (May 2006). Business intelligence 2006 – only the beginning. What Works: Best Practices
in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, 21.
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Data Warehousing: Single Version of the Truth
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“The truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth …”
Source: Inmon, B. (September 9, 2006). The single version of the truth. Business Intelligence Network. Retrieved
February 22, 2008 from http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/282
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Source: Data warehouse framework. BiPM Institute. Retrieved February 22, 2008 from http://bipminstitute.com/
template/topic.php?topic_id=DAC
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Source: Sen, A., & Sinha, A. P. (January 2007). Toward developing data warehousing standards: an ontology-based
review of existing methodologies. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 37, 17-31.
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Source: Sen, A., & Sinha, A. P. (January 2007). Toward developing data warehousing standards: an ontology-based
review of existing methodologies. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 37, 17-31.
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Source: Sen, A., & Sinha, A. P. (January 2007). Toward developing data warehousing standards: an ontology-based
review of existing methodologies. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 37, 17-31.
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Access to Information
(Architected) Data Marts
Operational
Data Store
Data Warehouse
(Persistent) Staging Area
Any Source
Source: Architecture of a data warehouse. SAP AG. Retrieved February 22, 2008 from http://help.sap.com/
saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/43/4a86b4224847b6e10000000a11466f/content.htm
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Persistent Staging Area (PSA)
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• Storage area for data Access to Information
extracted from sources
(Architected) Data Marts
• Requested data is saved Operational
directly from its source Data Store
Data Warehouse
(without changes)
• First step in loading data (Persistent) Staging Area
into the operational data
Any Source
store (ODS) or data
warehouse
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Operational Data Store (ODS)
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• Operational reporting Access to Information
• Granular data (Architected) Data Marts
Operational
• Volatile, near real Data Store
time Data Warehouse
• May feed Data (Persistent) Staging Area
Warehouse layer at Any Source
set intervals
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• Historical foundation Access to Information
for BI (Architected) Data Marts
• Granular data Operational
Data Store
• Integrated Data Warehouse
• Nonvolatile (Persistent) Staging Area
• Application neutral Any Source
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• Focus: Information Access to Information
needs of a business (Architected) Data Marts
unit or function Operational
Data Store
• Often aggregated, Data Warehouse
may be granular (Persistent) Staging Area
• Often dimensional
Any Source
data models
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