Data Warehouse Audit and Security

~ Seminar Outline

  1. Definitions and Characteristics
    • Problems that lead to data warehouse
    • Goals and ojectives of data warehouse
    • Data warehouse terminology
  2. Data Warehouse Architecture
    • Technical architecture
    • OLTP vs. Data Warehouse
    • Operational Data Store vs. Data Warehouse vs. Data Mart
    • Characteristic and types of an Operational Data Store
    • Characteristic of a Data Warehouse
    • Characteristic of a Data Mart
    • Audit and security implications
  3. Audit and Security Control Risks
    • Why 60% of DW projects fail
    • Challenges to Data Warehousing
    • Inherent risks
    • Risk mitigatigation
  4. Data Warehouse Infrastructure
    • Hardware
    • Software/Tools
    • Standards
    • Methodology
    • Organizational structure
  5. Data Management
    • Is the data clean and integrated?
    • Will we get consistent reports?
    • Dirty data categories
    • Data cleansing issues
    • Data transformation audit
  6. Auditing Data Models And Meta Data
    • Where did it come from and where did it go?
    • Logical data model (process/access independent)
    • Data Warehouse data model (database access)
    • Physical data model (DBMS specific)
    • Metadata components
    • Case tools & repositories
  7. Why Data Warehouse Methodology Is Different
    • RAD (Rapid Application Development)
    • Iterative (phased development)
    • Spiral (looping activities)
    • Tasks & deliverables
    • Audit reviews
    • Project planning and control challenges
  8. New Organization
    • Culture shift
    • Roles & responsibilities
    • Training & knowledge transfer
    • Contractors/Consultants
  9. Critical Success Factors
    • What a critical success factor is
    • Identifying and auditing critical success factors
    • Common DW success criteria
    • Measuring results
  10. The Development Contract
    • Functional scope
    • User expectations
    • User responsibilities
    • Service Level Agreements
    • Components of a Development Contract
    • Selecting the first DW iteration (1st project)
  11. Understanding DW access tools:
    • Evaluating products
    • Evaluating vendors
    • Reference checks
    • Getting the most from your vendors
    • Traps to be aware of