Distributed Data Warehouse

Implementation of Retail Store DBMS

Argumentation

Introduction

From the core case study issues and solutions as provided

in this project, the future Database enhancement scope will
vary based on the varying business needs of the respective
retail stores
Business requirements are changes to meet the online and
physical stores of the company and they were in the need
of statistical analysis and reports for all the database
operations.
Based on the intelligence goals of the retail store database
requirements, transfer of the data should be done in a
complex way to meet the warehouse aspects of the
company and thus a sophisticated Data Warehouse
implementation is required for the current Database of
Retail Store Online and Physical transactions

Proposed Solution
A simple web based database system will have web based access or UI
and provides lot of opportunities in terms of HTML and CGI script level
access to the database elements with a simple login or authentication
system
When the Relational Object oriented database systems are considered, it
is always required to model the data entities or objects with the
relationship aspects among these entities as well. RDBMS systems are
relational and hybrid in nature and purely made up of tables and the
corresponding implementation of this type of database systems to meet
the retail store data requirements is discussed in the previous sections.
For the current retail store system case study and its future needs, a
web based database approach will be helpful in terms of query and API
requirements.
Existing infrastructure can be used to migrate the current database to
web based database by setting the required network like LAN, WAN and
Internet connections and providing the user access respectively.

SAP BI Implementation
For migrate or upgrade the current database to distributed systems, a
simple Business intelligence logic can be added to the existing database
requirements. BI can be adopted with the help of SAP BI and SAP HANA.
Once the retail store data is shifted or migrated to SAP BI system,
architecture of entire database will be changed to act as typical
distributed system and the client level access can be provided to the
end users
SAP BI will provide lot of decision making aspects by visualizing the
reports annually, quarterly and monthly and the entire report generation
process will take few seconds, which is very less when compared to the
traditional SQL Server approach
SAP ABAP level programming interface will be used to code the report
requirements and the standard procedures will run on the SAP BI server
and the entire reports can be easily generated as well. This distributed
architecture can be held through a web based access by providing login
and authentication as defined at the administration and ACL level.

Benefits of Proposed
Implementation
Less time to download the data related to all the retail store
operations with the level of Data imports, exports and report
generation facilities
Overall decision making process can be improved by
considering the facts instead of assumptions
All the required alternatives can be analyzed in a better
manner
Overall Business Process can be improved by incorporating
the Shorter business cycles, redesign of jobs and
procurement savings as well
Total labor costs can be optimized to 20% with the proposed
solution and ROI can be estimated or achieved within 3 years
of time and the proposed estimates are as given below

Addressing the Problems

Data that is never used can be shifted to archives and can

be retrieved based on the requirements of the system
High demand for disk volume or space can be solved by
adding additional RAID servers and backup servers to the
current Data warehouse or BI Server and regular backup
and archiving will help in improving the overall performance
as well
All the hidden problems as associated with the source
system will be recovered or handled with automation
management tools and techniques and high level end user
training to the resources will help a lot in this context

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