Building cubes from ODS or Operational Systems

A demo on BIDS of how to build an SSAS cube (DB) from an operational system (normalized database) such as Operational Data Store (ODS) or directly from the transactional business system, without building a star schema Data Warehouse first.
Targeted specifically at SSAS developers (those who have developed cubes on top of star/snowflake schema data mart/warehouse). DW architects would also be able to benefit/take away the idea as a new concept.

Vincent Rainardi

Very passionate with data warehousing, Vincent works in London as data warehousing & BI architect specialising on SQL Server BI. He currently works at IMS, and previously for Catlin, lastminute.com, Veolia, Avery Dennison and Accenture. He wrote a book on SQL Server data warehousing, titled 'Building a data warehouse with examples on SQL Server', published by Apress. He started working with data warehousing and OLAP in 1996 when he was working for Accenture. He wrote data warehousing & BI articles on SQLServerCentral.com. His blog is www.datawarehouse.org.uk. You can contact him at vrainardi@gmail.com. Vincent would welcome any questions and discussions on data warehousing and BI.

Vincent Rainardi's blog http://www.datawarehouse.org.uk/

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