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
2 • Pivot table tool practice
• Schema patterns and summarizability problems
• Schema integration practice
Module • Enterprise data warehouse development
3
• Data integration process concepts
• Change data characteristics
Module
4 • Data integration techniques
• Architectures and features of data integration tools
• Overview of Talend and Pentaho tools
Module
5 • Practice with Pentaho Data Integration
4
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Assignments
Pivot Table Manipulation
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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