The Decision-Driven Warehouse - Attention Warehouse Shoppers: The Output is in the Decision

Overview

TodayÂ’s Decision Support System (DSS) market place has about as many definitions of warehouse as vendors: Centralized warehouse, operational data store, distributed warehouse, virtual warehouse, data mart, replicated online transaction processing (OLTP) data. If you are currently undertaking a Data Warehousing project, you are faced with trying to select the right approach from a myriad of options. Proponents of each warehouse strategy often defend their design as the only acceptable one and focus on the physical aspects of extracting, moving, organizing, and accessing huge amounts of data. Obviously, data is necessary for Decision Support. However, while selecting a physical approach is necessary, it is not enough to build a successful Data Warehouse.