Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Concepts – Simplified

ByAdam Gilmore Updated on

10 Page Guide – Free PDF Download.

Download our free PDF Guide to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Concepts.

The Guide covers Basic concepts of Data Warehousing including:

  • Facts, Dimensions, Star Schemas and Data Warehouse Design.
  • Definitions – Business Intelligence vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mining etc.
  • Extract Transform and Load (ETL).
  • OLAP and Cubes.
  • Slowly Changing Dimension Types 1 and 2 Explained.
  • Data Warehousing Tools.
  • Introduction to Business Intelligence and its applications, with examples.

Update: You can now access our free online course – Kimball Dimensional Data Warehouse Course, which covers everything in the document plus a lot more. 

Adam Gilmore

Adam Gilmore is a Data Architect with 19 years' experience in the Data field. He writes for Dimodelo and develops courses covering Data Analysis to Data Architecture.

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