Topics to be presented

• Adv. Databases and Dataware Houses Topics to be presented by students

 1. Indexing DW (Bitmap, MDX, X-Tree , UB-Tree,

etc.) ( approx. In Week of 17 March) 2. DW Products evaluation (SAS, Cognos, Oracle

Express, MicroStrategy, Hyperion Essbase)( approx. in Week 24 March)

3. Recovery, Concurrency, Distributed DBMS( after the Week of 24 March)

Term Projects• In your term project, you will bring together concepts

and tools, in order to develop a complete DW application of your choice. Your project evaluation will be based on:

• Your Project Proposal (Week 3);• A first deliverable (Week 9), consisting of your

design and application description• A final deliverable (Week 14), consisting of your

complete application using desktop without web capabilities; along with a final report and demo.

• Demo and Presentation: You will be required to present your project and do a Demo.

Term Project (cont.)

• Project Proposal including (Feb, 5 12:00)– Project name, project description, project objectives,

limitations– Requirement Specifications: describe in detail you

application requirements, a set of functionalities that your application will support by indicate clearly the context, the scope, example input and output, and the processing used to implement the requirement (Hint: Refer to chapter 7 in the book of Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, for details on how to write the requirements specifications).

– Project Plan incl. time, tasks and responsibilities

A first deliverable (March, 21 12:00)

• Conceptual design • Data model: fact table, dimensions that supports

the different requirements and the business process you have defined in the first phase.

•  Architecture• Tools to be used• A mid report: describing your data model,

application design and your design decisions (why you have designed it this way). The report should detail all the previous points.

A final deliverable (April 25, 12:00)

• A final deliverable, consisting of your complete application using desktop or web capabilities; along with a final report and demo.

• Demo and Presentation (week of 28 April): You will be required to present your project and do a Demo.