Business Intelligence Roadmap is a visual guide to developing an effective business intelligence (BI) decision-support application. This book outlines a methodology that takes into account the complexity of developing applications in an integrated BI environment. The authors walk students through every step of the process—from strategic planning to the selection of new technologies and the evaluation of application releases. The book also serves as a single-source guide to the best practices of BI projects.

Table of Contents

About the Authors.
Foreword.
Preface.

I. STAGES AND STEPS.

0. Guide to the Development Steps.
1. Step 1: Business Case Assessment.
2. Step 2: Enterprise Infrastructure Evaluation.  
3. Step 3: Project Planning. 
4. Step 4: Project Requirements Definition.
5. Step 5: Data Analysis.
6. Step 6: Application Prototyping. 
7. Step 7: Meta Data Repository Analysis. 
8. Step 8: Database Design.
9. Step 9: Extract/Transform/Load Design. 
10. Step 10: Meta Data Repository Design.
11. Step 11: Extract/Transform/Load Development. 
12. Step 12: Application Development.
13. Step 13: Data Mining. 
14. Step 14: Meta Data Repository Development.
15. Step 15: Implementation.
16. Step 16: Release Evaluation.

II. AT A GLANCE.

17. Resource Allocation Matrix.
18. Entry & Exit Criteria and Deliverables Matrix.
19. Activity Dependency Matrix.
20. Task/Subtask Matrix.
21. Practical Guidelines Matrix.
Appendix. Work Breakdown Structure.