Data Architecture

17. Data Warehouses I

Early Analysis in this Area

Since the beginning of the organization of business processes into functions that optimized record keeping and thereby the ability to compete successfully in the marketplace, there has been a need to display or report on the basic information that was used by the direct functional processes. The business processes were distilled and encoded in programming languages that provided a concise set of actions to be performed on the data. The data used for the processes were arranged in the most optimal structure possible to ensure rapid movement through the programs that represented the captured business processes.

Unfortunately, the structure of the data for optimal processing for the business did not ...