IBM Data Warehousing

MICHAEL L. GONZALES is President of The Focus Group, Ltd., where he guides organizations from the initial development phase of a data warehouse project to full imple-mentation. He has written for publications including Intelligent Enterprise and DB2 Magazine, is a frequent speaker at industry user conferences, and conducts data warehouse courses internationally.

Acknowledgments.Introduction.PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND THE DATA WAREHOUSE.Chapter 1. Overview of the BI Organization.Chapter 2. Business Intelligence Fundamentals.Chapter 3. Planning Data Warehouse Iterations.PART TWO: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE.Chapter 4. Designing the Data Architecture.Chapter 5. Technical Architecture and Data Management Foundations.PART THREE: DATA MANAGEMENT.Chapter 6. DB2 BI Fundamentals.Chapter 7. DB2 Materialized Query Tables.PART FOUR: WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT.Chapter 8. Warehouse Management with IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Center.Chapter 9. Data Transformation with IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Center.Chapter 10. Meta Data and the IBM DB2 Warehouse Manager.PART FIVE: OLAP AND IBM.Chapter 11. Multidimensional Data with DB2 OLAP Server.Chapter 12. OLAP with IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Center.Chapter 13. DB2 OLAP Functions.PART SIX: ENHANCED ANALYTICS.Chapter 14. Data Mining with Intelligent Miner.Chapter 15. DB2-Enhanced BI Features and Functions.Chapter 16. Blending Spatial Data into the Warehouse.Bibliography.Index.