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Uncover hidden insights and facilitate ease of collaboration and access from anywhere through HTML5 and mobile applications. Dashboards. Dimensional Modeling. The goal of a data warehouse and business intelligence (DW/BI) solution is to publish the “right” data and make it easily accessible to decision-makers.
Successful DW/BI implementations rest on the foundation of a dimensional model to deliver both ease-of-use and query performance. As described in our book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Third Edition (Wiley 2013), effective dimensional models reflect the natural performance measurements and descriptive attributes of a business.
They survive reorganizations, acquisitions, and other business changes, if designed properly. Most importantly, business partners will find a well-designed dimensional model intuitive because it mirrors the way they think about the business, not the way a data modeler has normalized the organization’s data. Dimensional models are critical to enabling the business to leverage the organization’s valuable information assets. Phases.