DATA

WAREHOUSING
ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM
WHAT IS DATA
WAREHOUSING?
Data warehousing is the secure electronic
storage of information by a business or other
organization. the goal of data warehousing is to
create a trove of historical data that can be
retrieved and analyzed to provide useful insight
into the organization's operations.

Data warehousing is a vital component of

business intelligence. that wider term
encompasses the information infrastructure that
modern businesses use to track their past
successes and failures and inform their decisions
for the future.
WHAT IS DATA
WAREHOUSING?
Data warehousing is the secure electronic
storage of information by a business or other
organization. the goal of data warehousing is to
create a trove of historical data that can be
retrieved and analyzed to provide useful insight
into the organization's operations.

Data warehousing is a vital component of

business intelligence. that wider term
encompasses the information infrastructure that
modern businesses use to track their past
successes and failures and inform their decisions
for the future.
Data warehousing is the storage of information over time by
a business or other organization.
New data is periodically added by people in various key
departments such as marketing and sales.
The warehouse becomes a library of historical data that can
be retrieved and analyzed in order to inform decision-
making in the business.
The key factors in building an effective data warehouse
include defining the information that is critical to the
organization and identifying the sources of the information.
A database is designed to supply real-time information. A
data warehouse is designed as an archive of historical
information.
HOW DATA WAREHOUSING WORKS
• The need to warehouse data evolved as businesses began relying on computer
systems to create, file, and retrieve important business documents. The concept
of data warehousing was introduced in 1988 by IBM researchers Barry Devlin
and Paul Murphy.
• Data warehousing is designed to enable the analysis of historical data.
Comparing data consolidated from multiple heterogeneous sources can provide
insight into the performance of a company. A data warehouse is designed to
allow its users to run queries and analyses on historical data derived from
transactional sources.
• Data added to the warehouse do not change and cannot be altered. The
warehouse is the source that is used to run analytics on past events, with a
focus on changes over time. Warehoused data must be stored in a manner that is
secure, reliable, easy to retrieve, and easy to manage.
MAINTAINING THE DATA WAREHOUSE
• There are certain steps that are taken to maintain a data warehouse.
One step is data extraction, which involves gathering large amounts
of data from multiple source points. After a set of data has been
compiled, it goes through data cleaning, the process of combing
through it for errors and correcting or excluding any that are found.
• The cleaned-up data are then converted from a database format to a
warehouse format. Once stored in the warehouse, the data goes
through sorting, consolidating, and summarizing, so that it will be
easier to use. Over time, more data are added to the warehouse as
the various data sources are updated.
MAINTAINING THE DATA WAREHOUSE
• A key book on data warehousing is W. H. Inmon's "Building the
Data Warehouse," a practical guide that was first published in 1990
and has been reprinted several times.
• Today, businesses can invest in cloud-based data warehouse
software services from companies including Microsoft, Google,
Amazon, and Oracle, among others.
THE 5 STEPS OF DATA MINING
The data mining process breaks down into five steps:
1. An organization collects data and loads it into a data
warehouse.
2. The data are then stored and managed, either on in-house
servers or in a cloud service.
3. Business analysts, management teams, and information
technology professionals access and organize the data.
4. Application software sorts the data.
5. The end-user presents the data in an easy-to-share format,
such as a graph or table.
DATA WAREHOUSING VS. DATABASES
DATABASE DATA WAREHOUSING
• A database is a transactional • A data warehouse is
system that monitors and programmed to aggregate
updates real-time data in order structured data over time.
to have only the most recent
data available.
ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES OF
DATA WAREHOUSES
Data warehousing is intended to give a
company a competitive advantage. it creates
a resource of pertinent information that can
be tracked over time and analyzed in order
to help a business make more informed
decisions.
It also can drain company resources and
burden its current staff with routine tasks
intended to feed the warehouse machine.
The Corporate Finance Institute identifies these
potential disadvantages of maintaining a data
warehouse:

• It takes considerable time and effort to create and maintain

the warehouse.
• Gaps in information, caused by human error, can take years
to surface, damaging the integrity and usefulness of the
information.
• When multiple sources are used, inconsistencies between
them can cause information losses.
Advantages
• Provides fact-based analysis on past company performance to inform
decision-making.
• Serves as a historical archive of relevant data.
• Can be shared across key departments for maximum usefulness.

Disadvantages
• Creating and maintaining the warehouse is resource-heavy.
• Input errors can damage the integrity of the information archived.
• Use of multiple sources can cause inconsistencies in the data.
DATA WAREHOUSE
FAQS
H E R E A R E T H E A N S W E R S T O S O M E C O M M O N LY-
ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT D AT A
WA R E H O U S I N G .

1. W H AT I S A D AT A WA R E H O U S E A N D W H AT I S
IT USED FOR?
2. W H AT I S A D AT A WA R E H O U S E E X A M P L E ?
3. W H AT ARE THE S TA G E S OF D AT A
WA R E H O U S I N G ?
4. I S S Q L A D AT A WA R E H O U S E ?
What Is a Data Warehouse and What Is It
Used For?

A data warehouse is an information storage system for

historical data that can be analyzed in numerous ways.
Companies and other organizations draw on the data
warehouse to gain insight into past performance and
plan improvements to their operations.
What Is a Data Warehouse Example?
Consider a company that makes exercise equipment. Its best-seller is a stationary
bicycle, and it is considering expanding its line and launching a new marketing
campaign to support it.

It goes to its data warehouse to understand its current customer better. It can find out
whether its customers are predominantly women over 50 or men under 35. It can learn
more about the retailers that have been most successful in selling their bikes, and
where they're located. It might be able to access in-house survey results and find out
what their past customers have liked and disliked about their products.

All of this information helps the company to decide what kind of new model bicycles
they want to build and how they will market and advertise them. It's hard information
rather than seat-of-the-pants decision-making.
What Are the Stages of Data Warehousing?

There are at least seven stages to the creation of a data warehouse, according to IT Pro
Today, an industry publication. They include:
1. Determining the business objectives and its key performance indicators.
2. Collecting and analyzing the appropriate information.
3. Identifying the core business processes that contribute the key data.
4. Constructing a conceptual data model that shows how the data are displayed to the
end-user.
5. Locating the sources of the data and establishing a process for feeding data into the
warehouse.
6. Establish a tracking duration. Data warehouses can become unwieldy. Many are
built with levels of archiving, so that older information is retained in less detail.
7. Implementing the plan.
Is SQL a Data Warehouse?

SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a computer language

that is used to interact with a database in terms that it can
understand and respond to. It contains a number of commands
such as "select," "insert," and "update." It is the standard
language for relational database management systems. 5
A database is not the same as a data warehouse, although both
are stores of information. A database is an organized collection
of information. A data warehouse is an information archive that
is continuously built from multiple sources.
THE BOTTOM LINE
THE D AT A WA R E H O U S E IS A C O M PA N Y ' S
R E P O S I TO RY O F I N F O R M AT I O N A B O U T I T S
BUSINESS AND HOW IT HAS PERFORMED OVER
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I N E A C H O F I T S K E Y D E PA RT M E N T S , I T I S T H E
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AND INFORMS ITS DECISION-MAKING.
THANK YOU!
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