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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

You're reading from   Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology Take your data warehousing and business intelligence to the next level with this practical guide to Oracle Database 11g. Packed with illustrations, tips, and examples, it has over 80 advanced recipes to fine-tune your skills and knowledge.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849685481
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
1. Preface
1. Defining a Program FREE CHAPTER 2. Establishing the Project 3. Controlling the Project 4. Wrapping Up the Project 5. The Blueprint 6. Analyzing the Requirements 7. Architecture and Design 8. Analyzing the Sources 9. Analyzing the Data 10. Constructing the Data Model 11. Defining the ETL/ELT 12. Enhancing the Data 13. Optimizing the Access 14. Security

Defining the business rules


Whenever you derive or determine a calculation or some other rule, it is important to capture them separately. The reason for this is that calculations and business rules are normally reused multiple times within the business. It is important to ensure a consistent definition of the rules and information across all business requirements.

Getting ready

To start, look at all your requirements where there may be, business rules or calculations.

How to do it...

Business rules are ways in which the business calculates, manipulates, or categorizes information. There are normally many of these within an organization with many differing definitions. It is important to identify and define these so that the business can agree upon which version of the business rule is correct:

  1. 1. Open your requirements spreadsheet, and create an additional tab called Business Rules, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Set up the columns to capture the necessary information:

  3. 3. Extract...

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