Chapter 9. Case Study: Data Warehouse

Introduction

Data warehousing and business intelligence projects provide some interesting challenges to teams adopting agile approaches, such as large data sets, complex integrations, and the thought that you need all the data for any of it to be useful. This case study aims to provide some insight into how you might approach the analysis effort for such a project.

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