Aligning with Business Goals
As discussed in Chapter 2, a data warehouse or BI deployment should be aligned with business goals. As you develop a universe, compare how this universe helps achieve the business goals.
The process of determining universe requirements will vary depending on whether your implementation is based on an existing data warehouse, a new data warehouse developed in conjunction with an SAP BusinessObjects implementation, or a transaction system.
Existing Data Warehouse
Just because information is in the data warehouse or data mart, that doesn’t mean it needs to be in either the data foundation or in the business layer. For example, data warehouses may contain dimension histories seldom used by end users. Conversely, data ...
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