ETL Maturity Model for Data Warehouse Systems:A CMMI Compliant Framework

The effectiveness of the Business Intelligence(BI)system mainly depends on the quality of knowledge it produces.The decision-making process is hindered,and the user’s trust is lost,if the knowledge offered is undesired or of poor quality.A Data Warehouse(DW)is a huge collection of data gathered from many sources and an important part of any BI solution to assist management in making better decisions.The Extract,Transform,and Load(ETL)process is the backbone of a DW system,and it is responsible for moving data from source systems into the DW system.The more mature the ETL process the more reliable the DW system.In this paper,we propose the ETL Maturity Model(EMM)that assists organizations in achieving a high-quality ETL system and thereby enhancing the quality of knowledge produced.The EMM is made up of five levels of maturity i.e.,Chaotic,Acceptable,Stable,Efficient and Reliable.Each level of maturity contains Key Process Areas(KPAs)that have been endorsed by industry experts and include all critical features of a good ETL system.Quality Objectives(QOs)are defined procedures that,when implemented,resulted in a high-quality ETL process.Each KPA has its own set of QOs,the execution of which meets the requirements of that KPA.Multiple brainstorming sessions with relevant industry experts helped to enhance the model.EMMwas deployed in two key projects utilizing multiple case studies to supplement the validation process and support our claim.This model can assist organizations in improving their current ETL process and transforming it into a more mature ETL system.This model can also provide high-quality information to assist users inmaking better decisions and gaining their trust.

Decision-Making Information System for Academic Careers in Congolese Universities: From Analysis to Design of a Data Warehouse

Universities collect and generate a considerable amount of data on students throughout their academic career. Currently in South Kivu, most universities have an information system in the form of a database made up of several disparate files. This makes it difficult to use this data efficiently and profitably. The aim of this study is to develop this transactional database-based information system into a data warehouse-oriented system. This tool will be able to collect, organize and archive data on the student’s career path, year after year, and transform it for analysis purposes. In the age of Big Data, a number of artificial intelligence techniques have been developed, making it possible to extract useful information from large databases. This extracted information is of paramount importance in decision-making. By way of example, the information extracted by these techniques can be used to predict which stream a student should choose when applying to university. In order to develop our contribution, we analyzed the IT information systems used in the various universities and applied the bottom-up method to design our data warehouse model. We used the relational model to design the data warehouse.

Organizational Data Management： Proposing a Metadata-Driven Data Warehouse （DW） Model

Discussing the matter of organizational data management implies, almost automatically, the concept of data warehousing as one of the most important parts of decision support system （DSS）, as it supports the integration of information management by aggregating all data formats and provisioning external systems with consistent data content and flows, together with the metadata concept, as one of the easiest ways of integration for software and database systems. Since organizational data management uses the metadata channel for creating a bi-directional flow, when correctly managed, metadata can save both time and resources for organizations. This paperI will focus on providing theoretical aspects of the two concepts, together with a short brief over a proposed model of design for an organizational management tool.

An Application of a Multi-Tier Data Warehouse in Oil and Gas Drilling Information Management

Expenditure on wells constitute a significant part of the operational costs for a petroleum enterprise, where most of the cost results from drilling. This has prompted drilling departments to continuously look for ways to reduce their drilling costs and be as efficient as possible. A system called the Drilling Comprehensive Information Management and Application System (DCIMAS) is developed and presented here, with an aim at collecting, storing and making full use of the valuable well data and information relating to all drilling activities and operations. The DCIMAS comprises three main parts, including a data collection and transmission system, a data warehouse (DW) management system, and an integrated platform of core applications. With the support of the application platform, the DW management system is introduced, whereby the operation data are captured at well sites and transmitted electronically to a data warehouse via transmission equipment and ETL (extract, transformation and load) tools. With the high quality of the data guaranteed, our central task is to make the best use of the operation data and information for drilling analysis and to provide further information to guide later production stages. Applications have been developed and integrated on a uniform platform to interface directly with different layers of the multi-tier DW. Now, engineers in every department spend less time on data handling and more time on applying technology in their real work with the system.

Uniform Representation Model for Metadata of Data Warehouse

A uniform metadata representation is introduced for heterogeneous databases, multi media information and other information sources. Some features about metadata are analyzed. The limitation of existing metadata model is compared with the new one. The metadata model is described in XML which is fit for metadata denotation and exchange. The well structured data, semi structured data and those exterior file data without structure are described in the metadata model. The model provides feasibility and extensibility for constructing uniform metadata model of data warehouse.

基于Data Warehouse技术的数据可视化的应用

给出了一个基于DataWarehouse技术的市民投诉系统的设计与实现·系统由管理子系统、语音信箱、分析决策子系统 3部分组成 ,其中分析决策子系统是实现的关键·采用DataWarehouse技术 ,以ROLAP为主要方法 ,将数据可视化技术应用于DataWarehouse,实现了多维数据的可视化处理·系统已在多个城市的投诉中心投入运行 ,取得了良好的社会效益·

Development of Geological Data Warehouse

Data warehouse (DW), a new technology invented in 1990s, is more useful for integrating and analyzing massive data than traditional database. Its application in geology field can be divided into 3 phrases: 1992-1996, commercial data warehouse (CDW) appeared; 1996-1999, geological data warehouse (GDW) appeared and the geologists or geographers realized the importance of DW and began the studies on it, but the practical DW still followed the framework of DB; 2000 to present, geological data warehouse grows, and the theory of geo-spatial data warehouse (GSDW) has been developed but the research in geological area is still deficient except that in geography. Although some developments of GDW have been made, its core still follows the CDW-organizing data by time and brings about 3 problems: difficult to integrate the geological data, for the data feature more space than time; hard to store the massive data in different levels due to the same reason; hardly support the spatial analysis if the data are organized by time as CDW does. So the GDW should be redesigned by organizing data by scale in order to store mass data in different levels and synthesize the data in different granularities, and choosing space control points to replace the former time control points so as to integrate different types of data by the method of storing one type data as one layer and then to superpose the layers. In addition, data cube, a wide used technology in CDW, will be no use in GDW, for the causality among the geological data is not so obvious as commercial data, as the data are the mixed result of many complex rules, and their analysis always needs the special geological methods and software; on the other hand, data cube for mass and complex geo-data will devour too much store space to be practical. On this point, the main purpose of GDW may be fit for data integration unlike CDW for data analysis.

Data Warehouse Design for Big Data in Academia

This paper describes the process of design and construction of a data warehouse(“DW”)for an online learning platform using three prominent technologies,Microsoft SQL Server,MongoDB and Apache Hive.The three systems are evaluated for corpus construction and descriptive analytics.The case also demonstrates the value of evidence-centered design principles for data warehouse design that is sustainable enough to adapt to the demands of handling big data in a variety of contexts.Additionally,the paper addresses maintainability-performance tradeoff,storage considerations and accessibility of big data corpora.In this NSF-sponsored work,the data were processed,transformed,and stored in the three versions of a data warehouse in search for a better performing and more suitable platform.The data warehouse engines-a relational database,a No-SQL database,and a big data technology for parallel computations-were subjected to principled analysis.Design,construction and evaluation of a data warehouse were scrutinized to find improved ways of storing,organizing and extracting information.The work also examines building corpora,performing ad-hoc extractions,and ensuring confidentiality.It was found that Apache Hive demonstrated the best processing time followed by SQL Server and MongoDB.In the aspect of analytical queries,the SQL Server was a top performer followed by MongoDB and Hive.This paper also discusses a novel process for render students anonymity complying with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regulations.Five phases for DW design are recommended:1)Establishing goals at the outset based on Evidence-Centered Design principles;2)Recognizing the unique demands of student data and use;3)Adopting a model that integrates cost with technical considerations;4)Designing a comparative database and 5)Planning for a DW design that is sustainable.Recommendations for future research include attempting DW design in contexts involving larger data sets,more refined operations,and ensuring attention is paid to sustainability of operations.

Preliminary Study in Spatial Data Warehouse of Flood Control and Disaster Mitigation in Yangtze River Basin

Since 1990s,the spatial data warehouse technology has rapidly been developing, but due to the complexity of multi-dimensional analysis, extensive application of the spatial data warehouse technology is affected. In the light of the characteristics of the flood control and disaster mitigation in the Yangtze river basin, it is proposed to design a scheme about the subjects and data distribution of the spatial data warehouse of the flood control and disaster mitigation in Yangtze river basin, i.e., to adopt a distributed scheme. The creation and development of the spatial data warehouse of the flood control and disaster mitigation in Yangtze river basin is presented .The necessity and urgency of establishing the spatial data warehouse is expounded from the viewpoint of the present situation being short of available information for the flood control and disaster mitigation in Yangtze river basin.

ROLE OF META-MODEL IN ENGINEERING DATA WAREHOUSE

Engineering data are separately organized and their schemas are increasingly complex and variable. Engineering data management systems are needed to be able to manage the unified data and to be both customizable and extensible. The design of the systems is heavily dependent on the flexibility and self-description of the data model. The characteristics of engineering data and their management facts are analyzed. Then engineering data warehouse (EDW) architecture and multi-layer metamodels are presented. Also an approach to manage anduse engineering data by a meta object is proposed. Finally, an application flight test EDW system (FTEDWS) is described and meta-objects to manage engineering data in the data warehouse are used. It shows that adopting a meta-modeling approach provides a support for interchangeability and a sufficiently flexible environment in which the system evolution and the reusability can be handled.

Study on Material ManagementSystem of Coal Enterprise Basedon Data Warehouse

On the bas is of the reality of material supply management of the coal enterprise, this paper expounds plans of material management systems based on specific IT, and indicates the deficiencies, the problems of them and the necessity of improving them. The structure, models and data organizing schema of the material management decision support system are investigated based on a new data management technology (data warehousing technology).

Optimal Genetic View Selection Algorithm for Data Warehouse

To efficiently solve the materialized view selection problem, an optimal genetic algorithm of how to select a set of views to be materialized is proposed so as to achieve both good query performance and low view maintenance cost under a storage space constraint. First, a pre-processing algorithm based on the maximum benefit per unit space is used to generate initial solutions. Then, the initial solutions are improved by the genetic algorithm having the mixture of optimal strategies. Furthermore, the generated infeasible solutions during the evolution process are repaired by loss function. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the heuristic algorithm and canonical genetic algorithm in finding optimal solutions.

Web-based: A data warehouse on osteoporosis data warehouse in the osteoporosis community health information management system

Objective: To establish an interactive management model for community-oriented high-risk osteoporosis in conjunction with a rural community health service center. Materials and Methods: Toward multidimensional analysis of data, the system we developed combines basic principles of data warehouse technology oriented to the needs of community health services. This paper introduces the steps we took in constructing the data warehouse;the case presented here is that of a district community health management information system in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, China. For our data warehouse, we chose the MySQL 4.5 relational database, the Browser/Server, (B/S) model, and hypertext preprocessor as the development tools. Results: The system allowed online analysis processing and next-stage work preparation, and provided a platform for data management, data query, online analysis, etc., in community health service center, specialist outpatient for osteoporosis, and health administration sectors. Conclusion: The users of remote management system and data warehouse can include community health service centers, osteoporosis departments of hospitals, and health administration departments;provide reference for policymaking of health administrators, residents’ health information, and intervention suggestions for general practitioners in community health service centers, patients’ follow-up information for osteoporosis specialists in general hospitals.

Network Intrusion Detection and Visualization Using Aggregations in a Cyber Security Data Warehouse

The challenge of achieving situational understanding is a limiting factor in effective, timely, and adaptive cyber-security analysis. Anomaly detection fills a critical role in network assessment and trend analysis, both of which underlie the establishment of comprehensive situational understanding. To that end, we propose a cyber security data warehouse implemented as a hierarchical graph of aggregations that captures anomalies at multiple scales. Each node of our proposed graph is a summarization table of cyber event aggregations, and the edges are aggregation operators. The cyber security data warehouse enables domain experts to quickly traverse a multi-scale aggregation space systematically. We describe the architecture of a test bed system and a summary of results on the IEEE VAST 2012 Cyber Forensics data.

Hybrid Warehouse Model and Solutions for Climate Data Analysis

Recently, due to the rapid growth increment of data sensors, a massive volume of data is generated from different sources. The way of administering such data in a sense storing, managing, analyzing, and extracting insightful information from the massive volume of data is a challenging task. Big data analytics is becoming a vital research area in domains such as climate data analysis which demands fast access to data. Nowadays, an open-source platform namely MapReduce which is a distributed computing framework is widely used in many domains of big data analysis. In our work, we have developed a conceptual framework of data modeling essentially useful for the implementation of a hybrid data warehouse model to store the features of National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) climate data. The hybrid data warehouse model for climate big data enables for the identification of weather patterns that would be applicable in agricultural and other similar climate change-related studies that will play a major role in recommending actions to be taken by domain experts and make contingency plans over extreme cases of weather variability.

The Complete K-Level Tree and Its Application to Data Warehouse Filtering

This paper presents a simple complete K level tree (CKT) architecture for text database organization and rapid data filtering. A database is constructed as a CKT forest and each CKT contains data of the same length. The maximum depth and the minimum depth of an individual CKT are equal and identical to data’s length. Insertion and deletion operations are defined; storage method and filtering algorithm are also designed for good compensation between efficiency and complexity. Applications to computer aided teaching of Chinese and protein selection show that an about 30% reduction of storage consumption and an over 60% reduction of computation may be easily obtained.

Refreshing File Aggregate of Distributed Data Warehouse in Sets of Electric Apparatus

Integrating heterogeneous data sources is a precondition to share data for enterprises. Highly-efficient data updating can both save system expenses, and offer real-time data. It is one of the hot issues to modify data rapidly in the pre-processing area of the data warehouse. An extract transform loading design is proposed based on a new data algorithm called Diff-Match,which is developed by utilizing mode matching and data-filtering technology. It can accelerate data renewal, filter the heterogeneous data, and seek out different sets of data. Its efficiency has been proved by its successful application in an enterprise of electric apparatus groups.

Multidimensional Design Paradigms for Data Warehouses: A Systematic Mapping Study

Data warehouses (DW) must integrate information from the different areas and sources of an organization in order to extract knowledge relevant to decision-making. The DW development is not an easy task, which is why various design approaches have been put forward. These approaches can be classified in three different paradigms according to the origin of the information requirements: supply-driven, demand-driven, and hybrids of these. This article compares the methodologies for the multidimensional design of DW through a systematic mapping as research methodology. The study is presented for each paradigm, the main characteristics of the methodologies, their notations and problem areas exhibited in each one of them. The results indicate that there is no follow-up to the complete process of implementing a DW in either an academic or industrial environment;however, there is also no evidence that the attempt is made to address the design and development of a DW by applying and comparing different methodologies existing in the field.

Identification of Categorical Registration Data of Domain Names in Data Warehouse Construction Task

This work is dedicated to formation of data warehouse for processing of a large volume of registration data of domain names. Data cleaning is applied in order to increase the effectiveness of decision making support. Data cleaning is ap- plied in warehouses for detection and deletion of errors, discrepancy in data in order to improve their quality. For this purpose, fuzzy record comparison algorithms are for clearing of registration data of domain names reviewed in this work. Also, identification method of domain names registration data for data warehouse formation is proposed. Deci- sion making algorithms for identification of registration data are implemented in DRRacket and Python.

The Proposal of Data Warehouse Validation

The analysis of relevant standards and guidelines proved the lack of information on actions and activities concerning data warehouse testing. The absence of the complex data warehouse testing methodology seems to be crucial particularly in the phase of the data warehouse implementation. The aim of this article is to suggest basic data warehouse testing activities as a final part of data warehouse testing methodology. The testing activities that must be implemented in the process of the data warehouse testing can be split into four logical units regarding the multidimensional database testing, data pump testing, metadata and OLAP （Online Analytical Processing） testing. Between main testing activities can be included： revision of the multidimensional database scheme, optimizing of fact tables number, problem of data explosion, testing for correctness of aggregation and summation of data etc.