11. Moving to a Production Environment

Following our recommendations and deployment steps until here, you will have an environment that will have all required elements to work, the relational database in place, an ETL system that brings information from the source ERP, a BI platform that allows you to analyze the information in an easy way, and an MOLAP platform that helps you in next year’s target definition. But we are quite sure that you won’t stop here. You will want to add new analysis, new fields, new calculations, new attributes, or new hierarchies to your system. It is possible that you want to add volume, more granularity, daily detail instead of monthly, or arrive to the same level of information than your transactional ERP system. You can require multiple modifications in your analytic system that can interfere in your database structure and your already created reports that are being used by multiple customers. In order to ensure that you have reliable data to offer to anybody analyzing it in your system, the best scenario is to have different environments for data analysis and for new developments, in order to avoid undesired affectations.