Exemplary embodiments typically include methods of deploying a predefined
data warehouse process model from a development system having a development environment
to a customer system having a customer environment, the customer environment being
different from the development environment. Embodiments typically include exporting
metadata from the predefined warehouse process model to an interchange metadata
file, in which the metadata comprises data elements describing a development environment,
in which the metadata comprises at least some data elements having values that
are site dependent, and copying, from the interchange metadata file to an interchange
resource file, site dependent data elements. Embodiments typically include identifying
site dependent data values of the customer system, converting in the interchange
metadata file, the site dependent data element values to the site dependent data
values of the customer system, and importing the interchange metadata file into
the customer system.
