1. Pooja Sharma Shanti Ragathi Vaishnavi Kasala

2. BUSINESS BACKGROUND Lowe's started as a single hardware store in North Carolina in 1946 and since then has grown to the second largest home improvement retailer in the world behind Home Depot. In 2009, the company operated 1,710 stores in the United States and Canada. Lowe's provides a wide range of home building supplies and services to its target customers. Key product groups for Lowe’s are lumber, millwork, appliances, tools, hardware, and lawn care.

3. BUSINESS NEEDS There is a greater need for strategic information that will ensure the long term survival of Lowe’s Corporation’ What quarter is least successful by state? We could enhance marketing in that quarter. What region sells the most in each quarter? We could use this data to find out where we would like to open new stores. What kind of product is selling the least in each state? We would know to order less of that product in that state.

4. Product Dimension Table DepartmentDimension Table Location Dimension Table Time Dimension Table

5. Data for Products Types of Products

6. Data for Locations

7. Data for Time

8. Data for Department List of departments Accessible Home Hardware Outdoors Paint Heating and Cooling Electrical Home décor Kitchen

9. Fact Table The junction table in the data warehouse is called a fact table and it contains detailed metrics, measures or quantitative data from business activities.

10. Relationships Among dimensions

11. Next Step Cube Implementation Product Location

12. Thank You !!!