In many cases, the people being applied to the Y2K problem may be individuals that could be targeted to a data warehousing effort. Required for the development of extract, transformation, and cleansing of a data warehouse or data mart. These skill sets are also in high demand for Y2K. Understanding of data elements and application logic. Application and business knowledge is critical to the analysis, identification, and acquisition of data for the data warehouse or data mart. This application and data element knowledge is also critical to Y2K efforts.
Database administrators are critical to the development of an optimized data warehouse database.
Database administrators and their knowledge are key to the Y2K conversion process. Data warehousing is a team process that can involve many different individuals, business units, and functions. Y2K efforts also require strong leadership and management of a team that will interact with many others, including business units. Data warehousing requires access to the corporate data stores for analysis, extraction, and building of the data warehouse or data mart. Y2K initiatives are analyzing and affecting the same corporate data stores.