Data Warehousing Defined
You’re in good company if you wonder exactly what is meant by data warehousing—and indeed you might even wonder whether it has any precise meaning at all. The term has existed for almost two decades, and you might have seen a variety of definitions. Here is ours:
Data warehousing is both a vision of and a methodological approach toward organizing and managing enterprise data for the purpose of providing a trustworthy, consistent, integrated, and comprehensive data foundation for an enterprise’s data-driven requirements and applications, both tactical and strategic.
Why does our definition not include any technical references? Well, that’s just the point! While technology is essential to actually realizing the vision, data ...
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