Information Systems Program

Module 1
Data Warehouse Concepts and
Architectures
Lesson 2: Course topics and assignments
Lesson Objectives
• Understand course topics and course flow
• Understand assessments especially practice and graded
problems
• Obtain software

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Course Topics
Data warehouse User
Data mart tier
server departments

Operational
database Staging Extraction
Area
process
Transformation
process

Operational Data mart

database

Detailed and
summarized data
EDM
External
data source Data warehouse
Data mart

Architectures Pivot Table Manipulation

Schema Design Data Integration 3

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Course Flow
• Motivation and characteristics
• Architectures
Module • Project characteristics and maturity model
1 • Employment opportunities

• Multi-dimensional data model

• Microsoft MDX language
Module
• Pivot table tool practice
2

• Schema patterns and summarizability problems

• Schema integration practice
Module • Enterprise data warehouse development
3

• Data integration process concepts

• Change data characteristics
Module
• Data integration techniques
4
• Architectures and features of data integration
tools
Module • Overview of Talend and Pentaho tools
5 • Practice with Pentaho Data Integration
4

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Assignments
Data
source
1

DW
schem
a
Data
source
Pivot Table Manipulation n

Schema Integration

Data Integration Workflow 5

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Tools

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Summary
• Balance concepts, design, software skills, and
management practices
• Assignments for schema design, pivot table manipulation,
and data integration workflows
• Usage of open source tools for pivot table manipulation
and data integration workflows

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