ABSTRACT
The functioning warehouse is not quite ready for production, but it can be used for queries in a variety of meaningful ways. The warehouse is probably already being queried by a variety of users who are working directly with the development team, but they aren’t yet able to access the warehouse on their own. Still needed are a series of technical and organizational controls that will ensure appropriate use in production. The technical controls include capabilities to secure, monitor, and tune the operational warehouse so it provides sound, high-performance functioning. The organizational controls introduce data administration and data governance capabilities that emphasize proper HIPAA compliance and source data error correction. Until these final features are put in place, the Gamma warehouse can only be directly used by the development team. Data controls will enable a turnover to production for stand-alone user access.
