Data Warehouse
Data warehousing is considered to be the most important developments in the Information Systems field and a way of storing data of an entire organisation. Data warehousing has been around for more than fifteen years and every year it is developing more and more to help large organisations do their business with ease and security. The term data warehouse is defined as a database that collects business information from many sources in the enterprise, covering all aspects of the company’s processes, products and customers (R. Stair & G. Reynalds, 2006). In general a data warehouse’s main purpose is to support management decision making and therefore having the ability to convey data in new and innovative ways. In this essay is discussed in detail what data warehouses are and the components linked to data warehousing to make it all work. The reasons why data warehouse’s are implemented and what factors affect in the success of a well designed data warehouse are......
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