Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part One Requirements, Realities, and Architecture.

Chapter 1 Defining Business Requirements.

Chapter 2 Designing the Business Process Dimensional Model.

Chapter 3 The Toolset.

Part Two Developing and Populating the Databases.

Chapter 4 Setup and Physical Design.

Chapter 5 Designing the ETL System.

Chapter 6 Developing the ETL System.

Chapter 7 Designing the Analysis Services OLAP Database.

Part Three Developing the BI Applications.

Chapter 8 Business Intelligence Applications.

Chapter 9 Building the BI Application in Reporting Services.

Chapter 10 Incorporating Data Mining.

Part Four Deploying and Managing the DW/BI System.

Chapter 11 Working with an Existing Data Warehouse.

Chapter 12 Security.

Chapter 13 Metadata Plan.

Chapter 14 Deployment.

Chapter 15 Operations and Maintenance.

Part Five Extending the DW/BI System.

Chapter 16 ManagingGrowth.

Chapter 17 Real-Time Business Intelligence.

Chapter 18 Present Imperatives and Future Outlook.

Index.