What is Data Warehousing?

Data Warehousing

data warehouse can be defined as

follows:
Subject

What is Data Warehousing?

Benefits of Data Warehousing

oriented

Integrated

Problems of Data Warehousing

Data Warehouse Architecture

Time-variant

Nonvolatile
It

is a collection of data in support of

management decision-making process.

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Benefits of Data Warehousing
Data

warehousing is intended to
support reporting and analysis of data.

Here

are the benefits as follows:

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Problems of Data Warehousing
Here

are some problems associated

with developing and maintaining a
data warehouse as follows:
Underestimation

Potential

High Returns on Investment

Competitive Advantage
Increased Productivity

Decision Makers

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Loading

Hidden

of Corporate

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of Resources for Data

Problems with Source Systems

Required Data not

Captured

Increased End User

Demands

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Problems of Data Warehousing

Data
High

Data Warehouse Architecture

Homogenization

Warehouse Manager

Demand for Resources

Load
manager

Data

Ownership
High Maintenance
Long

Highly summarized
data

Metadata

Lightly summarized
data

Operational data
source 2

Query
manager

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OLAP tools

DBMS
Detailed data

Duration Projects

Complexity of

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Reporting, query, application
development and EIS tools

Operational data
source 1

Warehouse Manager

Operational data
source n

Integration

Data mining tools

End-user access tools

Operational data store

(ODS)

Archive/backup data

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Data Warehouse Architecture
Operational

Data Store
A repository of current and
integrated operational data used
for analysis

Load

Manager
Performs all the operations
associated with the extraction and
loading of data into the warehouse

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Data Warehouse Architecture

Detailed Data
The

area of the warehouse which

stores all the detailed data in the
database schema

Lightly and Highly Summarized Data

The

area of the warehouse which

stores all the predefined lightly and
highly summarized data generated
by the warehouse manager

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Data Warehouse Architecture

Archiv e/Backup Data

The

area of the warehouse where

detailed and summarized data are
stored for the purpose of archiv ing
and backup

Data Warehouse Architecture

End-User

Access Tools

These

tools are used to interact with

the data warehouse to obtain
information.

Metadata
The

area of the warehouse where all

the metadata (data about data)
definitions are stored

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