Collecting and Defining Users' Analytical Requirements
Speaker(s):
Mark Whitehorn
Duration: full day
Track: Strategy and Architecture
Business intelligence is all about delivering solutions that provide accurate, rapid answers to users’ analytical questions. In theory, we simply ask the users to define their requirements. In practice, this approach rarely works because it is very difficult for anyone to know and precisely define their complete set of analytical needs. The good news is that as BA/BI architects and specialists, we can help business analytics users determine their requirements – and doing so turns out to be relatively simple.
Spend the day with BI expert Mark Whitehorn to see how it’s done. Instead of asking for a complete set of requirements, for example, you can begin by asking for a relatively small set of specific requirements: “We want to plot unit sales over time” or “We want to investigate how profit varies with different product lines in different stores.” From those requirements, you can extrapolate to a generalized logical model that your users will not only understand but also approve. You can then turn that into a physical model, typically a star schema. This seminar will focus on how to collect the users’ requirements and create the logical model.
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