A company's global competitiveness depends on the utilization and maintenance of information. Current data handling practices - storing, updating, and accessing data - can be either a problem or a significant strategic advantage. Designing a Total Data Storage Solution gives readers the information they need to compare technologies and determine which is best suited to their enterprise. This book defines and explains the components that make up total cost of ownership along with the impact of integrating current changes in technology. It provides everything an IT manager needs in order to develop an efficient and cost-effective data storage plan.

8090B-0 A start-to-finish process for deploying successful data warehouses. This book delivers what every data warehousing project participant needs most: a thorough overview of today's best solutions, and a reliable step-by-step process for building warehouses that meet their objectives. It answers the key questions asked by everyone involved in a data warehouse initiative: project sponsors, developers, managers, and CIOs. And, with over 75 figures, it doesn't just tell you how to get the job done: it shows you. Migration strategies and scenarios Management and support: issue resolution, capacity planning, security, backup, and more Specific answers for project sponsors, managers, and CIOs 12 steps for implementation Best techniques for schema design and metadata Choosing the right hardware, software, and platforms Evolving as new technologies mature Rely on this book's up-to-date listings of vendors and Web resources. Learn to evolve your data warehouse as new technologies mature-including metadata interchange standards, Web solutions, and Windows …Ø NT. Whatever your goals, Data Warehousing for IT Professionals will help you achieve them faster and at lower cost.

"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword. Let the experts show you how to customize data warehouse designs for real business needs in Data Warehouse Design Solutions. To effectively design a data warehouse, you have to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows you how business managers in different corporate functions actually use data warehouses to make decisions. You'll get a rich set of data warehouse designs that flow from realistic business cases. Two top experts show you how to customize your data warehouse designs for real-life business needs including: Sales and marketing Production and inventory management Budgeting and financial reporting Quality control Product delivery and fulfillment Strategic business analysis such as determining market share, rates of return on investment, and other key analytic ratios. CD-ROM includes All sample data warehouse designs with accompanying preformatted reports in HTML for specific business uses such as marketing, sales, and financial analysis. This title includes additional digital media when purchased in print format. For this digital book edition, media content may not be included. Contact the publisher's customer service directly for assistance.