Foreword by Mark Stephen LaRow, Vice President of Products, MicroStrategy" A unique and
authoritative book that blends recent research developments with industry-level practices for …

Data warehouses (DWs) are complex computer systems whose main goal is to facilitate the
decision making process of knowledge workers. ETL (Extraction-Transformation-Loading) …

The multidimensional (MD) modeling, which is the foundation of data warehouses (DWs),
MD databases, and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications, is based on several …

With the rise of social media in our life, several decision makers have worked on these
networks to make better decisions. In order to benefit from the data issued from these media …

Different modeling approaches have been proposed to overcome every design pitfall of
different data warehouse (DW) components. However, most of them offer partial solutions …

Hierarchies are used in data warehouses (DWs) and on-line analytical processing (OLAP)
systems to see data at different levels of detail. However, many kinds of hierarchies arising …

Abstract In Data Warehouse (DW) scenarios, ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading)
processes are responsible for the extraction of data from heterogeneous operational data …

This article reports a systematic review on the definition of UML profiles in the research
literature. Several exploratory statistical analyses have been performed in order to …

Data Warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing systems rely on a multidimensional
model that includes dimensions, hierarchies, and measures. Such model allows to express …

Most of the data warehouse projects still fail because the final data warehouse does not
properly meet business goals. Designers start a data warehouse project with the conceptual …