Preface

Business intelligence and data warehousing projects can be challenging and complex. Dealing with new technologies, processes, and different stakeholders presents an array of potential problems. To aid the project manager, there are recipes about project definition, scope, control, and risk management. Requirements, design, data analysis, security, and data enhancing will help in guiding the technical project member.

The Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology book offers insight and real-world experience to assist you through the business intelligence and data warehouse lifecycle. Recipes from the first six chapters of this book, focus more on processes and practices to aid with the definition and management of the project. From Chapter 7, Architecture and Design onwards, this book provides more technical recipes for the business intelligence and data warehousing project.