Release Management is critical to an incremental development processes that grows new capabilities, enhances the production deployment, and ensures provision of regular maintenance across the deployed assets. This process will keep the warehouse up-to-date, clean, and operating at its best. However, this process requires the same alignment between IT and Business as between the Data Warehouse model and the BI capabilities. It is a continual improvement effort.

This Figure illustrates an example release process, based on a quarterly schedule. Over the year, there are three business-driven releases and one technology-based release (to address requirements internal to the warehouse). The process should enable incremental development of the warehouse and management of the backlog of requirements.