Many executives, managers, business analysts, and nontechnical personnel are highly motivated to learn more about data warehousing. They want to understand what data warehouses are and how they work. More important, many are truly interested in doing their part to ensure success when implementing a data warehouse in their company. They are not interested in learning how towrite code or tune a database.

Unfortunately, most data warehouse publications available today are written for the people who design and build them. Some are from a project management perspective and others provide a great deal of technical depth. While these are very valuable to the technical team, they do not help the nontechnical audience. This book was written to provide a resource for those nontechnical people.