BI Architecture and Design Guide

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ArjanF — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:42:52 GMT

This is exploratory work accomplished by Patterns and Practices Group of Microsoft. There are no planned updates this content. But the group is open for any discussions on the guide.

Please provide feedback, would be helpful for the group to work on further enhance the content.

Please be aware that this is exploratory work, the content may not be high in editorial quality such as grammatical/typos, any suggestion you have in this regard will be well received.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: ArjanF **

Where is part 3?? The list steps from part 2 to part 4 skipping part 3.... where can I find it and more important what is in it?

Reviewed: BI Architecture and Design Guidelines (Dec 19, 2008)

odeddror — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:36:00 GMT

Rated 2 Stars (out of 5) - Where is the examples (code)?

NEW POST: BI Architecture and Design Guidelines Discussion

srowan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:35:56 GMT

Hi,

Is there a chapter 3 to this? It jumps from chapter 2 to chapter 4.

Thanks,

Scott

UPDATED WIKI: Home

chakpani — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:36:50 GMT

Project Description

Welcome to the world of Business Intelligence

This guide is intended for software architects and developers who are developing Business Intelligence applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework using SQL Server 2005 - Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Microsoft Office

This guide consists of the following chapters, each of which deals with a specific issue relevant to business intelligence. Each chapter is designed to be read, in whole or in part, according to your needs.

• BI Framework
• Data Extraction
• Data Staging
• Data Transformations and Data Quality
• Data Loading
• Dimensional Modeling
• Data Partitions
• Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• Data Mining

This is exploratory work accomplished by Patterns and Practices Group of Microsoft. There are no planned updates to this content. But the group is open for any discussions on the guide. This guide was originally published in gotdotnet site, downloaded hits ~10000. Moved to codeplex cause gotdotnet got phased out.

Content Authors:
Program Manager: Srinath Vasireddy (Microsoft)
Dev Architect: Chakrapani Kotipalli (Microsoft)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

chakpani — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:34:49 GMT

Project Description

Welcome to the world of Business Intelligence

This guide is intended for software architects and developers who are developing Business Intelligence applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework using SQL Server 2005 - Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Microsoft Office

This guide consists of the following chapters, each of which deals with a specific issue relevant to business intelligence. Each chapter is designed to be read, in whole or in part, according to your needs.

• BI Framework
• Data Extraction
• Data Staging
• Data Transformations and Data Quality
• Data Loading
• Dimensional Modeling
• Data Partitions
• Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• Data Mining

This is exploratory work accomplished by Patterns and Practices Group of Microsoft. There are no planned updates to this content. But the group is open for any discussions on the guide.

Content Authors:
Program Manager: Srinath Vasireddy (Microsoft)
Dev Architect: Chakrapani Kotipalli (Microsoft)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

chakpani — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:13:47 GMT

Project Description

Welcome to the world of Business Intelligence

This guide is intended for software architects and developers who are developing Business Intelligence applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework using SQL Server 2005 - Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Microsoft Office

This guide consists of the following chapters, each of which deals with a specific issue relevant to business intelligence. Each chapter is designed to be read, in whole or in part, according to your needs.

• BI Framework
• Data Extraction
• Data Staging
• Data Transformations and Data Quality
• Data Loading
• Dimensional Modeling
• Data Partitions
• Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• Data Mining

This is exploratory work accomplished by Patterns and Practices Group of Microsoft. There are no planned updates this content. But the group is open for any discussions on the guide.

Content Authors:
Program Manager: Srinath Vasireddy (Microsoft)
Dev Architect: Chakrapani Kotipalli (Microsoft)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

chakpani — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:07:49 GMT

Project Description

Welcome to the world of Business Intelligence

This guide is intended for software architects and developers who are developing Business Intelligence applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework using SQL Server 2005 - Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Microsoft Office

This guide consists of the following chapters, each of which deals with a specific issue relevant to business intelligence. Each chapter is designed to be read, in whole or in part, according to your needs.

This is exploratory work accomplished by Patterns and Practices Group of Microsoft. There are no planned updates this content. But the group is open for any discussions on the guide.

Content Authors:
Program Manager: Srinath Vasireddy (Microsoft)
Dev Architect: Chakrapani Kotipalli (Microsoft)

UPDATED RELEASE: BI Architecture and Design Guidelines (Aug 21, 2007)

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:04:15 GMT

About the Deliverable – The Architecture and Design Guidelines for BI Applications provides prescriptive guidance on how to overcome architectural challenges and design issues when building Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft platform. This guide is intended for software architects and developers who are developing Business Intelligence applications using SQL Server 2005 - Integration Services and Analysis Services.

This final (and 4th) community release includes the following:

• 400+ architecture and design guidelines

• 10 Chapters (covering – Data Extraction, Staging, Transformation, Loading, Data Quality, Dimensional Modeling, Relational Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining etc)

Roadmap:

The patterns & practices team focused on this exploratory community project after speaking with the SQL BI Product Group, SQL Marketing and Field. Being an exploratory community project - we anticipate gaps and scope for improvement. There is still lot of work to be done; our goal was to seed the community with just enough information to raise the excitement level and provide an opportunity to grow. There are no planned updates to this project moving forward.

Content Authors:
Program Manager: Srinath Vasireddy (Microsoft)
Dev Architect: Chakrapani Kotipalli (Microsoft)

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chakpani — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:02:46 GMT

This is exploratory work accomplished by Patterns and Practices Group of Microsoft. There are no planned updates this content. But the group is open for any discussions on the guide.

CREATED ISSUE: BI Architecture and Design Guidelines Discussions

chakpani — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:59:20 GMT

CREATED RELEASE: BI Architecture and Design Guidelines (Aug 21, 2007)

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