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The complete guide to dimensional modeling, and the data warehouse lifecycle toolkit, and more on. About decisionworks dimensional modeling and dwbi experts. Fundamental concepts gather business requirements and data realities before launching a dimensional modeling effort, the team needs to understand the needs of the business, as well as the realities of the underlying source data. Ralph kimball introduced the industry to the techniques of dimensional modeling in the first edition of the data warehouse toolkit 1996. An excellent dimensional model, or star schema, is the foundation of an excellent data warehouse. It is a well thought out, thorough but easy to read book 2. Data warehousing, business intelligence, and dimensional.