The ability for any solution to address your organization’s DW/BI
needs should be thoroughly tested before any purchase commitment is
made. Your prototype gets hosted and developed in a secure virtual
environment at the DSI Data Centre (219 Dufferin St., Toronto). Your
team has full remote access to the system during your evaluation.
What is a successful data warehouse? A successful data
warehouse is one that addresses the business intelligence requirements
and technical demands, while at the same time meeting management
expectations. A successful data warehouse is also one that is delivered
in a reasonable timeframe, and continues to grow in both usage and
content over time.
- The data warehouse provides the common enterprise view of the data – multiple business subjects, fully integrated!
- Due to its history retention, the data warehouse can grow to become the largest database in the enterprise
- The data warehouse is the source of strategic data for all
analyses. It contains the lowest level of detail data needed to support
the variety of data marts in your environment.
- The Central point of data integration for business intelligence
- Usually becomes the source of data for downstream, departmental use (data marts)
- Usually created over several iterations (each iteration about 90-100 days) and possibly over several years
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