To help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcome common challenges in data warehouse development, such as the need for specialized talent, long development cycles, and high costs, the DataWorks Intelligent Data Modeling team has collaborated with experienced data architects. Leveraging a decade of experience serving millions of Alibaba Cloud users and powered by the technological innovation of Alibaba Group, we have developed best-practice industry models for sectors including retail e-commerce, finance, and manufacturing. These templates help unify industry-specific business knowledge, keep pace with business development, and reduce the cost, time, and effort of developing data warehouse models.
Data model templates
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Provides an out-of-the-box data warehouse model for the retail industry, covering dimensions such as orders, members, and products. This template helps retail e-commerce and other transaction-driven businesses accelerate data warehouse development and adopt industry best practices in data modeling. |
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Provides an out-of-the-box data warehouse model for the banking industry, covering dimensions such as deposit products, lending products, and loan disbursements. This template helps banks establish unified data model standards and specifications, accelerate digital transformation, and ensure data accuracy and integrity. |
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Provides an out-of-the-box data warehouse model for the automobile manufacturing industry, covering dimensions such as workshops, production lines, and workstations. This template helps automobile manufacturers accelerate digital production transformation, establish industry-leading standards, align with manufacturing operations, and tightly integrate hardware systems with data. |
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The Bank and Automobile Manufacturing templates are available in trial and full versions. To use the full version, click Contact Us.
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Before you load a template, ensure Intelligent Data Modeling is enabled. For more information, see Intelligent Data Modeling.
Load a template
This section uses the Retail E-commerce template as an example.
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Log on to the DataWorks console. In the left-side navigation pane, click , and then select Data Model in the Category section.
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Click the Retail E-commerce template to enter the Retail E-commerce template details page.
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Click Use Complete Edition to open the Load Template configuration dialog box.
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Select a Work space and a Loading Method, and then click Determine.
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After the template loads, click Go to view to open the Data Modeling page.
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In the left-side navigation pane of the Data Modeling page, click to view the created data for the common and application layers. You can then adjust the data to meet your business requirements.
Next steps
After loading a data model template, you can modify or extend it and use other data modeling features in DataWorks. For more information, see Data Modeling Overview.
Related topics
For more information about using data model templates, see Retail E-commerce Data Modeling.