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CHAPTER 8 ■ SHAREPOINT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS 307Once the data is cleaned, it is then moved from the staging area into the data warehouse.The value of the data warehouse rests in its table structure. Instead of a relational structure,data warehouses utilize a fact table. A fact table can be thought of as a view that joins manyrelational tables together to focus on a certain area. For example, if we want to run reportsabout the sales opportunities shown in Figure 8-7, we might create a fact table of opportunitiesthat joins together the four tables in a single view. This fact table would contain the valueof every sales opportunity as a row, along with the primary keys for the other tables of interest.The primary keys contained in a fact table are said to be the dimensions of the table,while the values contained in the fact table are called measures. Dimensions are used to createviews of the measures in your reports. The fact table I describe, for example, would allowus to create a report that shows sales opportunity dollar values by employee. This report is aclassic pipeline report used by all sales organizations.In a data warehouse, the dimensions in the fact table are joined to tables that contain theactual values for the dimensions. This database structure results in a centralized fact tablejoined with many dimension tables. The resulting structure is called a star schema because thedatabase diagram resembles a star. Figure 8-8 shows a star schema.Figure 8-8. A star schemaUnderstanding CubesA data warehouse is an excellent structure for use with enterprise reporting tools such as SQLReporting Services; however, reporting represents only one part of an organization’s businessintelligence needs. Along with classic reporting, organizations need a way for informationworkers and senior management to analyze performance data. Analysis involves more thanjust static reporting, because it allows people to answer questions by dynamically manipulatingperformance data.
308CHAPTER 8 ■ SHAREPOINT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONSAs an example, consider what happens when an executive receives a report that quarterlyearnings have dropped by 20 percent. The natural reaction is to ask why earnings are down. Ifan organization has no analysis capability, the IT department is left writing report after report,trying to create a view of the data that will provide an answer. With the analysis capabilityembodied in a cube, data may be directly manipulated to provide different views without writinga single report.A cube is built using the star schema of the data warehouse as a starting point. SQL AnalysisServices transforms the data warehouse into a cube. Just like a data warehouse, the cubewill have facts, measures, and dimensions. The difference between the data warehouse andthe cube is that the cube will be optimized for analysis so that different views can be createdon the fly without running a new report.In order to create a cube, you must have SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services available. Ifyou created the development environment described in Chapter 2, you installed Analysis Serviceson the VSSQL machine. Along with Analysis Services, you also installed the SQL ServerBusiness Intelligence Studio. The Business Intelligence Studio uses many of the same visualelements that are found in Visual Studio 2005, but the environment is specifically designed forthe development of Business Intelligence projects such as cubes and reports. If you create anew project in Business Intelligence Studio, you’ll see many of the familiar project types fromVisual Studio along with the special Business Intelligence projects shown in Figure 8-9.Figure 8-9. Creating a new Business Intelligence projectAfter you create a new Analysis Services project, Business Intelligence Studio creates a seriesof folders in the Solution Explorer. These folders represent the steps in a process for creating acube. This process involves defining the data source to use, a view of that source, and then thecube. In each case, you can perform the required steps by right-clicking the appropriate folderand selecting New from the context menu. Figure 8-10 shows the folder set that is created.
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