Business intelligence deployment

Deploying the DW/BI system is the last step before the business users get access to the information. The first impression and feeling the business community gets when introduced to the BI frontend drives the acceptance. Because the acceptance from the users is important the deployment has to be thoughtfully planned and coordinated to ensure that the DW/BI system can perform and is delivering the results it is designed to. To ensure that the implementation can perform and deliver it has to be exposed to extensive end-to-end testing .. The process of testing is an ongoing activity along the development process, because defects that should be correct later in the lifecycle are difficult to find and are associated with exponentially increasing costs. A way of securing that the testing is done through the development lifecycle is to follow a methodology. At the site www.agiledata.org they propose an agile approach as a best practice to avoid that testing becomes The Developers blindspot. Kimball prescribe that before deploying the DW/BI system to production it should have passed a pre-deployment test that are covering the following procedures and tests;

• Testing procedures
• Data quality assurance testing
• Operations process testing
• Performance testing
• Deployment testing
• User desktop readiness.

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