DataWarehouse Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and generating 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). 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. This process is called ETL (Extract/Transform/Load). The Perl Data Warehouse Toolkit is a generic set of tools created to manage Data Warehouses meta-information, making simple ETL and DW tasks easy, and complex tasks possible. WARNING THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE. It could drink your beer and eat your hamster! 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 DataWarehouse You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=DataWarehouse AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/DataWarehouse CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/DataWarehouse Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/DataWarehouse/ The complete source code is available at: GitHub http://github.com/nferraz/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