What Works: Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. This compendium of content provides an information resource for better understanding the tools, technologies, and methods that are central to this growing industry. The goal of What Works is to provide a snapshot of the most innovative business intelligence and data warehousing implementations in the industry today. The case studies include in this volume demonstrate the power of BI for industries ranging from retail to education, insurance to transportation.
What Works also includes articles from leading experts in the services, software, and hardware vendor communities. the “lessons” features perspectives about how to build successful BI enviroment – including such topics as data governance, getting more value of enterprise data, and high-speed backup of the data warehouse.