data-warehousing
Winter Quarter 2024 (January-March)

	Where do you store a petabyte of 
	data for  business intelligence? 
	A  data warehouse, that’s where.

1. Git Repository

This repository is a place for Data Warehousing Course (MSIS-2621) at the Department of Information Systems & Analytics, Santa Clara University.
Class room: 309, Lucas Hall (LH)
Office: 316U, Lucas Hall (LH)
Office Hours: via scheduled Zoom and by appointment

2. Course Information:

A data warehouse  is  a  subject-oriented, integrated, 
non-volatile  and time-variant collection of  data  in 
support of management’s decisions.

This data-warehousing course introduces the  business, 
technology, and managerial issues related  to  BI  and 
DW solutions.   Students will acquire practical skills 
in    collecting   business   requirements,  planning, 
defining,  designing  and  developing  a  BI solution. 
Emphasis  is placed on learning how to derive business 
value from BI and  DW solutions.  Hands-on  experience 
will  be obtained  by building a small  data-warehouse 
and using a variety of BI tools. 

This course is  about  data  warehousing  and its role 
in  carrying  out  modern  business  intelligence  for 
actionable  insight  to  address  new  business needs. 
A data warehouses is the central component of a modern 
data  stack (a modern  data stack  is a combination of 
various software tools  used to collect, process,  and 
store  data  on a  well integrated  cloud  based  data 
platform).

3. Class Meeting Dates & Hours

Class meeting dates:
- Start: January 9, 2024
- End: March 21, 2024
- Final Exam week: March 18-21, 2024
Class hours:
- Tuesday 5:45 PM - 7:20 PM PST
- Thursday 5:45 PM - 7:20 PM PST