Coping With Data Warehouse Growing Pains
April 29th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"So you’ve deployed your first dimensional data mart. Fortunately, the
business loves it and is clamoring for more! They want to query and analyze
integrated data from additional enterprise data sources. For some of you, this
demand is a dream come true. For others, it may be the start of a slow-motion
nightmare." writes Joy Mundy in
"Coping With Growing Pains" for IntelligentEnterprise.com. "In this
column, I’ll use a case study to discuss the challenges you’ll likely encounter
when it’s time to roll your next business process subject area or data mart into
production. Sadly, there’s no magic. Putting your next subject area into
production is a difficult, though not intractable, problem. It’s a good place to
focus any fastidious tendencies you might have."
