By

T.S.DILEEP
KUMAR,
D.VIJAY,
G.HEMANTH
DEFINITION..
A Data WareHouse is a collection of corporate
information derived directly from operational systems
and some external data sources.
A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated,
time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data in
support of management’s decision-making process.
Main aim of it is to support business decisions and
not the business operations.
Components of Data Warehouse
 Staging Area
A preparatory repository where
transaction data can be transformed for
use in the data warehouse
 Data Mart
Traditional dimensionally modeled set of
dimension and fact tables
Per Kimball, a data warehouse is the
union of a set of data marts
 Operational Data Store (ODS)
Modeled to support near real-time
reporting needs.
 Data Warehouse Functionality

Relational
Databases

ERP
Systems

Analyze
Purchased Query
Data

Legacy
Data
MEMORY APPLICATIONS

1. Terabytes -- 10^12 bytes Wal-Mart -- 24 Terabytes

2. Petabytes -- 10^15 bytes Geographic Information Systems

3. Exabytes -- 10^18 bytes National Medical Records

4. Zettabytes -- 10^21 bytes Weather images

5. Zottabytes -- 10^24 bytes Intelligence Agency Videos

Applications:
Insurance fraud analysis:
These frauds are found out by either comparing them
with previous non fraudulent data or by checking some norms.
Finance and Forecast:
Data warehouse concepts are used to predict and provide
suggestions regarding financial field
Call record analysis:
Data warehouse techniques are used to keep track of the call
records and used for analysis which seems to be crucial for certain
crime cases.
Agriculture :
Databases and information systems for decision support for
evaluation, monitoring and policy formulations are made.
Decision support:
Strategic and Tactical business decisions can be made. Decision
support systems allow users to quickly, and flexibly manipulate
data.
Advantages..
Enhanced access to data and information:
 All data warehousing organizations enjoy better end-user access to
business information that is related to company affairs.
 Provides the ability to carefully analyze information is key to the
company's overall success or failure.
Easy report creation:
 Using this technology, business departments will find it easier to create
reports of all types, like financial statements, that are highly significant
to both day-to-day operations and yearly accounting.
 If it is not used in any other segment of the business, data warehousing
in accounting offers tremendous benefit.
Other major benefits are ease of access and flexibility of use for key
corporate data.
Disadvantages..
Preparation may be time consuming:
 One of the most common data warehousing issues pertains to the need to
regularly extract, clean, and load data into the system. Even though this process is
fully automated, it still consumes time as it does regular maintenance.

Compatibility with existing systems:

 The use of data warehousing technology may require a company to modify the
database system already in place. This could really be the foremost concern of
businesses when adapting the model given the cost of the computer systems and
software needed.

Security issues:
 Data warehousing technology, as good as it is to implement, may contain security
flaws. If the database contains sensitive information, its use may be restricted to a
limited group of people and precautions will be required to insure that access is
not compromised. Limited data access situations can also effect the overall
utilization of the data strategy.