Assignment 2: Total marks 50.

Submission date: 29th April 2021 11:59PM

Answers must be in Soft Copy and answers must not be copied from anyone else. If found so, both
numbers will be given zero marks.

1. Differentiate between a centralized and decentralized architecture of BI. (5)

2. What are the report types? Do mention with proper explanation. (List, Cross-tabulation, Chart,
Grouping Data, Sorting) (5)

3. Write a short note on Incremental BI Roadmap. (5)

4. What are phased and incremental BI roadmaps? (EPM, End-user, OLAP Implementation) (5)

5. How can you add calculations to reports? (Conditional formatting, Summary Lines to Report,
Capabilities- Drill down, Drill up, Run and Schedule Reports) (5)

6. What is KPI and how do you compute it? (4 formulas) (5)

7. Write a short note on Kaplan-Norton Balance Scorecard with a suitable diagram. (5)

8. Write a short note on Gestalt's Dashboard with a suitable diagram. (5)

9. Suppose you have been given the following data cube (a) from a company and hierarchies on
dimensions(b): (10)

Explain how cross tabulation can help to deal with the different hierarchies?

OR
A company has provided the following data in form of some tables:
Table:1
STORE
Store_id City State District_id region_id manager
700121 Dehradun Uttarakhand 612 788182 Kapil
700122 Roorkee Uttarakhand 654 788182 Ayush
700123 Dehradun Uttarakhand 612 788182 Kapil
700124 Guwahati Assam 891 781271 Manish
700125 Mussoorie Uttarakhand 653 788182 Ajay

Table:2
PRODUCT
Product_i Colou Si Store_i
d Brand r ze Manufacturer_id d Shipment_date
80128911 Nike Black L 51788182 700121 23-12-2017
80128912 Reebok Blue L 51788183 700122 17-06-2018
80128913 Puma Red M 51788182 700123 30-11-2019
80128914 Bombay dye Black L 51788182 700124 12-04-2018
80128915 Levis Black S 51788185 700125 12-04-2018

You are asked to prepare a data cube of Store, Product and Time dimensions. How will you
design the fact table if it is to be represented in a star schema?