Other competitive DW offerings teach how nice the world would be should students build a DW and how the instructor's consulting service can build one for them. However, there's a ton to consider and there are thousands of ways to implement. We surveyed the industry and teach a consolidation of best practices from the best of the practioners. Students leave the course pleased having covered an action-packed 4.5 days, but have a sense that they need more. The stated objective of DW110 is to enable the student to participate in a mentored DW implementation project of non-trivial scope.
Nothing replaces experience.
However, students expressed that experience opportunities are not available to them, so we developed DW120, DW130, and DW180 to address this concern and desire. DW12 This course continues where DW110 leaves off. It focuses on multi-dimentional modeling required by today's modern OLAP tools and provides a more challenging case study exercise than the simple introductory exercise provided in DW110. DW120's intention is to provide the student more experience in Multi-dimentional modeling beyond DW110. Focus is on optimizing the data model to provide adequate DW performance.