TUTORIAL SESSION

 

 

 

Tutorial Title: The Promise of Data Warehousing: Remember Your Map! (Formulating Business Rules)

 

 

 

Motivations and Scope of Tutorial:

Business rules are of utmost importance when tackling large data warehouse projects and often, those rules have not been adequately addressed in either the analysis or design phases of system development.  Typically, business rules have been buried in program code or in database structures.  It turns out, however, that the identification of business rules is important in its own right.  Moreover, it is different from the definition of data structure in a data model and from the definition of processes. 

 

Getting to the heart of business requirements involves an understanding of the enterprise at a deep level, without regard for the technology or even the procedural details, it is important to have a conceptual layout or map of the enterprise and its function and structure.  Only then should one proceed forward to determine how technology might help enforce the rules more efficiently, and how to structure such technology so that it is compatible with the enterprise. 

 

This tutorial will provide training on the analysis of business rules to be undertaken before embarking on data warehousing projects. 

 

Tutorial Outline:

¨      The Obstacles

¨      The Promise:  Data Warehousing

•            What Exactly is Data Warehousing?

•         A Place

•         A Process

•         A Methodology

•            How Data Warehousing overcomes those obstacles

¨      The Map:  Business Rules

•            Planning

•            Design & Implementation

•            Usage, Support, and Enhancements

¨      The Future

•            Active Data Warehousing

•            CRM

¨      The Conclusion

•            Delivering on the Promise

•            Customer Success Stories

 

Intended Audience:  Anyone interested in learning the criteria for implementing successful data warehouses; IT Professionals. 

 

Prerequisites:  None.

 

Tutorial Length:  2 hours. 

 

Method of Presentation:  PowerPoint using LCD projector.  Tutorial notes will be made available. 

 

 

Presenter:  Alison Torres

Director and Teradata Certified Master

Teradata, a Division of NCR

718 Union Avenue, Suite 204

Middlesex, New Jersey 08846

Voice:  732-271-7712

Email:  Alison.Torres@Teradata-NCR.com

 

 

Presenter's Bio:

Alison Torres is a Director for Teradata’s Strategic Warehousing and Technologies Team.  She has been working with the Teradata product since 1986 and her Teradata experience includes positions as Senior Systems Engineer, Customer Education Instructor, Technical Team Leader for C&LA, and Senior Data Warehouse Consultant in the areas of data warehousing, performance, physical database design, application and transaction design, and logical data modeling. 

 

Joining Teradata in 1986, Alison’s work in the computer industry has spanned twenty-two years and has been dedicated to the parallel processing relational database environment with an eye towards driving business value from analytical processing.  Throughout the years, Alison has been involved in the design, coding, implementation, and documentation of several key business applications.  She has also lead teams of cross functional groups to deliver some of the most successful Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse systems in existence. 

 

Facilitating data warehouse workshops for prospective customers is among Alison's many current responsibilities.  These workshops are designed to focus specifically on strategic business opportunities identified by the prospect and to help business users understand how those opportunities can be captured within a data warehouse.  The workshops are vendor neutral, addressing only what capabilities a data warehouse should have and how these capabilities relate to solving specific, high value business challenges for the user.

 

Alison is a Teradata Certified Master, having achieved all six levels of certification.  She received a Master of Arts from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College, Rutgers University, and has worked on post-graduate studies at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. 

 

Alison is the author of “LOOK MA, NO HANDS!”, an article available in a recent issue of Teradata Magazine  that explains how Teradata self-management makes hands-free driving safe for any DBA. 

http://www.teradatamagazine.com/articles/3Q_2002/tech2tech/appliedsolutions/default.htm

 

Alison is also past President of the International Board of Directors for Women in NCR,  recognized as a thought leader and advocate for women's issues.