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Planning is fundamentally important in any undertaking. This is no less true in the case of creating a BI solution. Although no plan is perfect and a protracted planning process is the bane of many projects, even simple BI solutions can benefit from some planning. The trick is to find a balance.
He who fails to plan is planning to fail. —Winston Churchill
The most important first step in designing a data warehouse (DW)/business intelligence (BI) system, paradoxically, is to stop. —Ralph Kimball
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© 2012 Randal Root and Caryn Mason
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Root, R., Mason, C. (2012). Planning Solutions. In: Pro SQL Server 2012 BI Solutions. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3489-0_3
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