Data warehouses store current and historical data and are used for creating trending reports for

senior management reporting such as annual and quarterly comparisons. A data warehouse
is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process (Purpose: Separating the workloads to avoid affecting
transactional systems. Building a consistent data repository combining multiple sources of data Supporting the analytical requirements (Reports) of the business users with various levels of
service agreements, latency requirements, richness of calculations and speed of query execution (Facilitating OLAP)