| a warehouse is used to gather information from | | | | information extraction, transformation and loading are |
| different parts of the business process and then | | | | the most time consuming exercises in data |
| making them a part of a centralized database. In a | | | | warehousing. If the data structures are strategic and |
| broader sense, a data warehouse is the collection of | | | | functional the importance of a data warehouse |
| data that is used by employees of an organization | | | | increases automatically. |
| for easy and smooth working. | | | | How to Quantify the Data Warehouse Effect? |
| What is a Six Sigma Strategy? | | | | In recent times we have started treating data |
| Six Sigma is a business management strategy that is | | | | warehouses as belonging to the same group or |
| used to improve the quality of process outputs by | | | | family. While designing a data warehouse you must |
| removing the reasons of defects in a manufacturing | | | | dedicate each family to a particular geographical |
| or business process. It includes statistical methods for | | | | location as per the hierarchical data. The warehousing |
| creating special infrastructure within the organization. | | | | modules for individual data groups are developed at |
| Six sigma requires heavy involvement from people at | | | | the initial stage and the new ones are just plugged |
| all levels of the organization to produce the type of | | | | into the main data warehouse. The three |
| change that is necessary to make the program a | | | | fundamental tables to store attributes of data, linking |
| success. Six sigma is an expensive program to | | | | information and aggregated data ready for use are |
| implement on the front end, but a program that can | | | | usually included in a data warehouse. |
| significantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness | | | | How Can You Apply Six Sigma Elements into |
| of your work force in the long run. | | | | Software Development |
| The most important reason why corporations include | | | | If you apply six sigma elements into data warehouse |
| six-sigma into data warehousing is because it affects | | | | software development, it will help in easily identifying |
| the cost reduction in a positive manner. If the project | | | | the potential problems in the production at the early |
| is in early stages, data warehousing and six-sigma | | | | stages of a project. |
| strategy will together allow for better planning, design | | | | Another benefit of including the elements is that the |
| and implementation. | | | | task of data warehousing can give positive results if |
| The Basics of Data Warehousing | | | | all the deployment plans are refined before |
| The components of data warehousing are | | | | implementation. |
| multifaceted and complex in nature. They are either | | | | Data warehouse is necessary to remove the |
| developed in-house or by a third party. While | | | | complexity of tasks in an organization. It has a |
| designing a data warehouse most of the designers | | | | self-assessing nature and provisions for internal |
| focus on functional and business needs, leaving the | | | | auditing that can make the course of implementation |
| performance constraints aside. This one mistake | | | | easier. We cannot deny the fact that a data |
| increases the possibility of missing deadlines and | | | | warehouse remains tied to the system architecture in |
| reworking on projects that reflect operational | | | | which it is built and also makes highly accurate |
| inefficiencies. | | | | predictions in the always-fluctuating business |
| Today all the data warehouses designed are | | | | environment. |
| compatible for real time updating. We know that | | | | |