414 Solving Operational Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition
12.1 Challenges to maintaining an operational
warehouse
In today’s business environment, one method that companies use to maintain or
increase profitability is to continually drive down costs. This usually translates to
accomplishing more with fewer resources. When these aspirations are applied to
the data warehouse environment, companies want to store larger amounts of
data preferably on the same amount of storage, or maximize the performance of
their hardware. Or even to reduce the number of administrators required to
maintain the solution.
Therefore, the pressure on a database administrator to achieve these goals
never diminishes. As such, DBAs must ...