1. 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)

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.