Coping With Data Warehouse Growing Pains

"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."