Business Intelligence Tutorial

Lesson 5. Defining a subject area

In this lesson, you will use the Data Warehouse Center to define a subject area. A subject area identifies and groups processes that relate to a logical area of the business.

For example, if you are building a warehouse of sales and marketing data, you define a Sales subject area and a Marketing subject area. You then add the processes that relate to sales underneath the Sales subject area. Similarly, you add the definitions that relate to the marketing data underneath the Marketing subject area.

For this tutorial, you will define a TBC Tutorial subject area to contain the definitions for the tutorial.

Any user can define a subject area, so you do not need to change the authorizations for the Tutorial Warehouse Group.

Defining the TBC Tutorial subject area

To define the subject area:

1. From the Data Warehouse Center tree, right-click on the Subject Areas folder, and click Define.

   The Subject Area Properties notebook opens.
   
   

2. In the Name field, type the business name of the subject area for this tutorial:

   TBC Tutorial
   

   The name can be 80 characters-including spaces.

3. In the Administrator field, type your name as the contact for this new subject.
4. In the Description field, type a short description of the subject area:

   Tutorial subject area
   

   You can also use the Notes field to provide additional information about the subject area.

5. Click OK to create the subject area in the Data Warehouse Center tree.

What you just did

In this lesson, you defined the TBC Tutorial subject area. In Lesson 8, Defining data transformation and movement, you will define processes under this subject area.