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The document discusses requirements for data warehouses and operational systems. It explains that operational systems contain detailed transactional data that changes frequently, while data warehouses contain historical data for analysis and reporting. Business dimensions provide context for numeric data and help users analyze data. Data packages contain content, preservation descriptions, and metadata. Dimension hierarchies show relationships within attributes. Examples of business metrics that can be dimensions include sales, customer loyalty, costs, productivity and margins. Reviews of existing documents and joint application design sessions can provide information on current processes and get user input. The requirements definition document should include an introduction, general and specific requirements, information packages, and other requirements.

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The document discusses requirements for data warehouses and operational systems. It explains that operational systems contain detailed transactional data that changes frequently, while data warehouses contain historical data for analysis and reporting. Business dimensions provide context for numeric data and help users analyze data. Data packages contain content, preservation descriptions, and metadata. Dimension hierarchies show relationships within attributes. Examples of business metrics that can be dimensions include sales, customer loyalty, costs, productivity and margins. Reviews of existing documents and joint application design sessions can provide information on current processes and get user input. The requirements definition document should include an introduction, general and specific requirements, information packages, and other requirements.

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Chapter 3 Exercises

1. What are the essential differences between defining requirement for operational system and
for data warehouse?

 Requirement operational system : A source of information for a data warehouse that includes
detailed information used for day to day business operations. Data often changes when updates
are made and reflects the current value of the last transaction. Using Operating Database
Management System, also known as OLTP (Online Transaction Processing Database), is used to
manage dynamic data in real time.

 Requirements for data warehouses : Data Warehouse Systems serve users or knowledge
workers in the purpose of data analysis and decision-making. Online-Analytical Processing
(OLAP) Systems is the systems can organize and present information in specific formats to
accommodate the diverse needs of various users.

2. Explain business dimensions. Why and how can business dimension be useful for defining
requirement for the data warehouse?

 Business dimensions are the core components or categories of a business, anything that
you want to analyse in reports. Business dimensions are fundamental to data
organization and provide context for numeric data items, or measures.

 They can tell you which units of measurement are important to them. Each department
can tell you how they measure success in a particular department. Users can give you an
idea of how they incorporate various information to make strategic decisions.
3. What data does information package contain?

 Content Information (CI) is information that content the original target of preservation.
It is consists of the Content Data Object such as Physical Object or Digital Object.

 Preservation Description Information (PDI) is needed to preserve the Content


Information, to ensure it is clearly identified, and to understand the environment in
which the Content Information was created. The Preservation Description Information is
divided into five types of preserving information called Provenance, Context, Reference,
Fixity and Access Rights.

4. What are dimensions hierarchies? Give 3 example.

 A dimension hierarchy is a many-to-one relationship between members of a table or


between tables. A hierarchy is a specification of levels that represents relationships
between different attributes within a hierarchy.

 3 Hierarchy in the time dimension which is :


 Day,
 Week
 Month.

5. Explain business dimension or fact with five examples.

 A business metric is a quantifiable measure businesses use to track, monitor and assess
the success or failure of various business processes.

 5 examples of business metrics is:

 - Sales revenue

 - Customer loyalty and retention

 - Cost of customer acquisition

 - Operating productivity

 - Size of gross margin


6. List the type of users who must be interviewed for collecting requirements. What information
can you expect to get from them?

 User Observation : getting a full grasp of how the user interacts with the system and
validating data that had been previously collected.

 Analyzing Existing Documents : reviewing the current process and documentation can
help the analyst understand the business, or system, and its current situation.

 Joint Application Design/JAD : ties together the steps of the design process in a concise
document, increases user satisfaction by directly involving users in the design process,
and builds commitment through the use of the executive sponsor.

7. In which situations can JAD methodology be successful for collecting requirements?

 The JAD methodology successfully met the needs because of the JAD teamwork. JAD
successfully reduces the time when users and other key experts are involved in the
process. The goal is to get the right design for the first time, thus reducing different
iterations. JADs typically operate in locations other than those involved. This helps
reduce interference. JAD participants include: JAD session leaders (also known as
facilitators), users, managers, sponsors, system analysts, authors, and other IS staff.

8. Why are reviews of existing documents important? What can you expect to get out of such
reviews?

 Reviews of existing documents is important because it can be used as a supplement to


information obtained from interviews, questionnaires, and observations. It is also can
assist in understanding why a user performs certain tasks while observing them.
9. Various data sources feed the data warehouse. What are the piece of information you need
to get about data sources?

 The pieces of information the need to have about the data sources is the availability
data sources, data structures within the data sources, location of the data sources, data
extraction procedures and availability of historical data.

10. Name any five major components of the formal requirements definition document. Describe
what goes into each of these components.

 5 major components of the formal requirements:

 Introduction - state the purpose and scope of the project.


 General requirement descriptions - describe the source systems reviewed
 Specific requirements - include details of source data needed
 Information packages - provide as much detail as possible for each of information
package
 Other requirements – include a cover miscellaneous requirements such as data extract
frequencies, data loading methods, and locations to which information must be
delivered.

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