Data War ehouse

Kudang B. Seminar
What is Data
warehouse?
 Data warehouse is an architecture for
organizing IS.
 Data warehouse as a subject- oriented,
integrated, time variant, non-volatile
collection of data in support of
management’s decision making process
 Data warehouse systems consist of a set of
programs that extract data from the
operational environment, a database that
maintains data warehouse data, and
systems that provide data to users
The Goal of Data Ware
House?
 to provide a "single image of
business reality" for the
organization
 Fundamental Ideas Behind the
Successful Data Warehousing
 Operational vs. Decision Support Applications: One impetus for data
warehouse is the unsuitability of traditional operational applications
for typical decision support usage patterns;
 Primitive vs. Derived Data: A critical success factor in data
warehouse design is understanding knowledge workers’ demand
demand for detailed vs. summary data;
 Time Series Data: Data warehouse often supports analysis of trends
over time and comparisons of current vs. historical data;
 Data Administration: Another critical success factor is senior
management commitment to maintenance of the quality of corporate
data
 Systems Architecture: A system must be architected when it is very
complex, requires the integration of many disciplines, or is
developed in the face of uncertain requirements.
Operational vs Decision Support
Systems
 Operational systems, like generalledger, materials management, or order processing,
generally access and update the record of a single business object or event: one
account, one inventory item, or one order. Transactions are generally pre-defined, and
require the database to provide very fast access one record at a time.

 DSS/EIS users are traditionally managers who think about the big picture long term.
Databases supporting decision support should be able to retrieve large sets of aggregate
and historical data within a reasonable response time.

 By separating these two very different processing patterns, the data warehouse
architecture enables both operational and decision support applications to focus on what
they do best and therefore provide better performance and functionality
Converting Data for
Warehouses
Alignment of data warehouse entities with the
business structure
Corporate Data for Warehouses

A corporate data warehouse is a

process by which related data from
many operational systems is
merged to provide a single,
integrated business information
view that spans all business
divisions.
Architecture of Data Warehouse