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Presented by:
Naheed A. Talukdar
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! A —
   is a repository
(collection of resources that can be accessed
to retrieve information) of an organization's
electronically stored data, designed to
facilitate reporting and analysis.
! The main source of the data is cleaned,
transformed and catalogued and is made
available for use by managers and other
business professionals for data mining, online
analytical processing, market research and
decision support.
! àowever, the means to retrieve and
analyze data, to extract, transform and
load data, and to manage the data
dictionary are also considered essential
components of a data warehousing
system.
! Data warehousing arises in an
organization's need for reliable,
consolidated, unique and integrated
analysis and reporting of its data at
different levels of aggregation.
 




! Architecture is a conceptualization of how the data warehouse is
built.
! A simple conceptualization of a data warehouse architecture
consists of the following interconnected layers:
d
d
 

The source data for the data
warehouse.
dd 



The interface between the operational

and informational access layer ³ Tools to extract, transform,
load data into the warehouse fall into this layer.
ddd 


There are dictionaries for the entire

warehouse and sometimes dictionaries for the data that can be
accessed by a particular reporting and analysis tool.
d d



The data accessed for reporting

and analyzing and the tools for reporting and analyzing data ³
Business Intelligence tools fall into this layer.
BENEFITS
Some of the benefits that a data warehouse provides are
as follows:
! A data warehouse provides a common data model for
all data of interest regardless of the data's source.
! Prior to loading data into the data warehouse,
inconsistencies are identified and resolved. This greatly
simplifies reporting and analysis.
! Because they are separate from operational systems,
data warehouses provide retrieval of data without
slowing down operational systems.
! Data warehouses can work in conjunction with and,
hence, enhance the value of operational business
applications, notably CRM systems.
! Data warehouses facilitate decision support system
applications such as trend reports, exception reports,
and reports that show actual performance versus goals.
APPLICATIONS
Some of the applications data warehousing
can be used for are:
! Decision support
! Trend analysis
! Financial forecasting
! Insurance fraud analysis
! Call record analysis
! Logistics and Inventory management



  

! IBM InfoSphere Warehouse is one of the most

powerful data warehousing services available in
the market today. InfoSphere Warehouse comes
in many versions that offer unique functions to
various parties, to solve your specific business
needs. InfoSphere Warehouse allows you to not
only store information but to also analyze it and
modify it using ETL tools that come with the
software. IBM InfoSphere is scalable to any
project and has been awarded on multiple
occasions for its user-friendliness and efficiency as
a data warehousing program