Perl-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit A Data Warehouse (DW) is a repository of an organization's data, designed to facilitate reporting and analysis at different levels of aggregation. The main source of the data is extracted, cleaned, transformed, and made available to managers and other business professionals for data mining, online analytical processing, market research and decision support. Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). The Perl Data Warehouse Toolkit goal is to make simple ETL and DW tasks easy, and complex tasks possible. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc DW You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Perl-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Perl-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Perl-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2010 Nelson Ferraz This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information. DISCLAIMER This module is not associated with Ralph Kimball's "Data Warehouse Toolkit" books. That said, I strongly recommend his books: * The Data Warehouse Toolkit http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247 * The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-ETL-Toolkit-Techniques/dp/0764567578 I also recommend: * Mastering Data Warehouse Aggregates http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Data-Warehouse-Aggregates-Performance/dp/0471777099