Agile Data Warehouse Design is a step-by-step guide for data warehousing / business intelligence (DW/BI) professionals, to translate ever-increasing business intelligence requirements into successful dimensional data warehouse designs. from new designers to experts.
This book describes BEAM✲, an agile approach to dimensional modeling that can be used throughout analysis and design to improve productivity and communication between data warehouse designers and BI stakeholders. BEAM✲ encourages DW/BI designers to move away from the keyboard and their entity relationship modeling tools and begin modeling interactively with business stakeholders. with the right guidance, BI stakeholders can and should model their own data requirements so that they can fully understand and influence what they will be able to report on and analyze.