Open Source Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Open Source Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence is an all-in-one reference for developing open source based data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) solutions that are business-centric, cross-customer viable, cross-functional, cross-technology based, and enterprise-wide. Considering the entire lifecycle of an open source DW & BI implementation, its comprehensive coverage spans from basic concepts all the way through to customization.

Highlighting the key differences between open source and vendor DW and BI technologies, the book identifies end-to-end solutions that are scalable, high performance, and stable. It illustrates the practical aspects of implementing and using open source DW and BI technologies to supply you with valuable on-the-project experience that can help you improve implementation and productivity.

Emphasizing analysis, design, and programming, the text explains best-fit solutions as well as how to maximize ROI. Coverage includes data warehouse design, real-time processing, data integration, presentation services, and real-time reporting. With a focus on real-world applications, the author devotes an entire section to powerful implementation best practices that can help you build customer confidence while saving valuable time, effort, and resources.

Lakshman Bulusu is a 20-year veteran of the IT industry with specialized expertise and academic experience in the management, supervision, mentoring, review, architectural design, and development of database, data warehousing, and business intelligence-related application development projects encompassing major industry domains such as pharmaceutical/healthcare, telecommunications, news/media, global investment and retail banking, insurance, and retail for clients across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is well-versed in the primary Oracle technologies through Oracle11g, including SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL-embedded programming, as well as design and development of Web applications that are cross-platform and open source-based.

Mr. Bulusu has expertise in data modeling and design of enterprise data warehousing/business intelligence information architectures, with multiple customer implementations to his credit. His design of application development frameworks using PL/SQL, from design to coding to testing to debugging to performance tuning to business intelligence, has been implemented in some major Fortune 500 clients in the United States. He has implemented the Common Data Quality Framework for SQL Server, based on summarization-comparison-discrepancy isolation across disparate multivendor large-scale databases. He is also an educator who has been teaching technical courses for about a decade in the areas of Oracle design, development, and optimization, and he serves on the CNS Advisory Committee of Anthem Institute (affiliated to Anthem Education Group).

Mr. Bulusu has authored six books on Oracle and more than fifty educational/technical articles in journals and magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom; he has also presented at national and international conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom. He lives in New Jersey and likes to read, write, listen to, and lecture on English poetry and nonfiction when he is not working on IT projects. He can be reached at lbulusu@compunnel.com.