3. 12 rules of a Datawarehouse
Data Warehouse and Operational
Environments are Separated
Data is integrated
Contains historical data over a long period of
time
Data is a snapshot data captured at a given
point in time
Data is subject-oriented
4. 12 rules of a Datawarehouse
Mainly read-only with periodic batch updates
Development Life Cycle has a data driven
approach versus the traditional process-driven
approach
Data contains several levels of detail
Current, Old, Lightly Summarized, Highly
Summarized
5. 12 rules of a Datawarehouse
Environment is characterized by Read-only
transactions to very large data sets
System that traces data sources,
transformations, and storage
Metadata is a critical component
Source, transformation, integration, storage,
relationships, history, etc
Contains a chargeback mechanism for resource
usage that enforces optimal use of data by end
users
6. Life cycle of the DW
Warehouse Database
First time load
Refresh
Refresh
Refresh
Purge or Archive
11. Data marts
Small Data Stores
More manageable data sets
Targeted to meet the needs of small groups
within the organization
Small, Single-Subject data warehouse subset
that provides decision support to a small group
of people
12. Data Mart
A subset of a data warehouse that
supports the requirements of a
particular department or business
function.
Characteristics include:
Do not normally contain detailed operational data
unlike data warehouses.
May contain certain levels of aggregation
14. Reasons For Creating a Data
Mart
To give users more flexible access to the data
they need to analyse most often.
To provide data in a form that matches the
collective view of a group of users
To improve end-user response time.
Potential users of a data mart are clearly
defined and can be targeted for support
15. To provide appropriately structured data as
dictated by the requirements of the end-user
access tools.
Building a data mart is simpler compared with
establishing a corporate data warehouse.
The cost of implementing data marts is far less
than that required to establish a data
warehouse.
16. Legacy Systems
Older software systems that remain vital to an
organisation
The legacy Dilemma
it is expensive and risky to replace the legacy
system
It is expensive to maintain the legacy system
Businesses must weigh up the costs and risks
and may choose to extend the system lifetime
using techniques such as re-engineering.
17. The system may be file-based with
incompatible files. The change required may
be to move to a database-management
system
In legacy systems that use a DBMS the
database management system may be
obsolete and incompatible with other DBMSs
used by the business
18. Legacy System Design
Most legacy systems were designed before
object-oriented development was used
Rather than being organised as a set of
interacting objects, these systems have been
designed using a function-oriented design
strategy
Several methods and CASE tools are
available to support function-oriented design
and the approach is still used for many
business applications
19. Legacy system categories
Low quality, low business value
These systems should be scrapped
Low-quality, high-business value
These make an important business contribution but
are expensive to maintain. Should be re-engineered
or replaced if a suitable system is available
High-quality, low-business value
Replace with COTS, scrap completely or maintain
High-quality, high business value
Continue in operation using normal system
maintenance
20. Legacy System Evolution
The structure of legacy business systems
normally follows an input-process-output
model
The business value of a system and its quality
should be used to choose an evolution
strategy
The business value reflects the system’s
effectiveness in supporting business goals
System quality depends on business
processes, the system’s environment and the
application software
21. Marketing Database
is a systematic approach to the gathering, consolidation, and
processing of consumer data (both for customers and
potential customers) that is maintained in a
company's databases.
Although databases have been used for customer data in
traditional marketing for a long time, the database marketing
approach is differentiated by the fact that much more
consumer data is maintained, and that the data is processed
and used in new and more sophisticated ways.
Among other things, marketers use the data to learn more
about customers, select target markets for specific
campaigns (through customer segmentation), compare
customers' value to the company and provide more
specialized offerings for customers.
22. Need for a Marketing Database
Emails sent based on email response alone,
not on overall purchases
Gold customers are seldom recognized
Long time customers treated as strangers
Customers feel unappreciated
You may lose your best supporters
23. What You Can Do with a Marketing
DB?
Store behavior and append demographic data
Create customer segments, and develop a
marketing plan for each segment.
Personalize all your email communications to
customers – to build loyalty and sales
Append demographic data
Determine customer lifetime value.