Data Warehouse

Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate your understanding of data warehousing as well as further develop your interpersonal communication skills.

Instructions
Complete the following steps:
Read the set up below
Review this website article for a concise overview of concerns and issues to be considered when considering the development of a data warehouse- Build your own website (Links to an external site.)
Write a memorandum email to your not-so-tech-savvy boss providing an overview of what would be involved in creating such a system for your company.
You will be submitting this assignment through a Plagiarism detector tool called Turn it in. Turnitin is used for some of the assignments in this course. Once you submit your work, please look at the report that comes up, and make changes accordingly then resubmit your work until the due date. The higher the percentage, the greater the amount of text in the submission that was highlighted as matching against information in Turnitin’s repositories, including the internet. Anything above 36% will result in a grade of 0.
blue (no matching words)
green (one matching word – 24% similarity index)
yellow (25-49% similarity)
orange (50-74% similarity)
red (75-100% similarity)
Set up:

You work at a small company here in Indiana. Your boss has heard that creating a Data Warehouse to support a Business Intelligence effort will solve all the company’s woes. You have been asked to come up with an overview of how the company would proceed. For this assignment you will be creating a proposal explaining to the boss what would be involved in a developing a data warehouse for your company. You will not be designing an actual data warehouse, but explaining what would be involved if the company were to proceed: what decisions need to be made, issues to be addressed, etc.