Open Source Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Lakshman Bulusu is a 20-year veteran of the IT industry with specialized expertise and academic experience in the management, supervision, mentoring, review, architectural design, and development of database, data warehousing, and business intelligence-related application development projects encompassing major industry domains such as pharmaceutical/healthcare, telecommunications, news/media, global investment and retail banking, insurance, and retail for clients across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is well-versed in the primary Oracle technologies through Oracle11g, including SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL-embedded programming, as well as design and development of Web applications that are cross-platform and open source-based. Mr. Bulusu has expertise in data modeling and design of enterprise data warehousing/business intelligence information architectures, with multiple customer implementations to his credit. His design of application development frameworks using PL/SQL, from design to coding to testing to debugging to performance tuning to business intelligence, has been implemented in some major Fortune 500 clients in the United States. He has implemented the Common Data Quality Framework for SQL Server, based on summarization-comparison-discrepancy isolation across disparate multivendor large-scale databases. He is also an educator who has been teaching technical courses for about a decade in the areas of Oracle design, development, and optimization, and he serves on the CNS Advisory Committee of Anthem Institute (affiliated to Anthem Education Group). Mr. Bulusu has authored six books on Oracle and more than fifty educational/technical articles in journals and magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom; he has also presented at national and international conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom. He lives in New Jersey and likes to read, write, listen to, and lecture on English poetry and nonfiction when he is not working on IT projects. He can be reached at lbulusu@compunnel.com.

• Part I INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS. Introduction. Embedded Programming-An Oracle-centric approach. Feature-Set and Solution-Set Enhancements. Part II BEST PRACTICES BY WAY OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT. Programming Languages, Platforms and Solutions: Best Practices in terms of Choice and Suitability: How Best is the "Best?". Best Practices for Data Structure Management. Best Practices for Robust Error Detection and Handling. Best Practices for Data Management. Best Practices for Application Management. Part III APPLYING EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING IN THE REAL WORLD. Application Development Frameworks. Miscellaneous Best Practices. Best Practices for Troubleshooting. Embedded Programming Coding Standards.

"… As a practitioner himself, Mr. Bulusu is able to pinpoint the more critical aspects for consideration that a BI expert would truly appreciate. He does a great job of covering the subject thoroughly by first starting at a high-level, covering every aspect of BI and then breaking down the components to the most granular detail applying open source BI’s feasibility and validity as a viable solution. … Bulusu’s thorough, meticulous approach and in-depth examination of the subject, taken from a standpoint of an experienced author, educator, and technologist, has finally provided justice to this subject. Thank you, Mr. Bulusu. You have opened my eyes to open source BI."—Rosendo Abellera, President and CEO, BIS3"… coverage spans from basic concepts to customization. It identifies end-to-end solutions and illustrates the practical aspects of implementing and using open source DW and BI technologies. The text explains best-fit solutions and how to maximize ROI. The expert in field, Lakshman Bulusu in this book devotes offers the best practices that will help you build customer confidence."—NeoPopRealism Journal