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Some of the benefits that a data warehouse provides are as follows:[7][8]

a‘ c data warehouse provides a common data model for all data of interest regardless of
the data's source. This makes it easier to report and analyze information than it would
be if multiple data models were used to retrieve information such as sales invoices,
order receipts, general ledger charges, etc.
a‘ ºrior to loading data into the data warehouse, inconsistencies are identified and
resolved. This greatly simplifies reporting and analysis.
a‘ !nformation in the data warehouse is under the control of data warehouse users so
that, even if the source system data is purged over time, the information in the
warehouse can be stored safely for extended periods of time.
a‘
ecause they are separate from operational systems, data warehouses provide
retrieval of data without slowing down operational systems.
a‘ áata warehouses can work in conjunction with and, hence, enhance the value of
operational business applications, notably customer relationship management (CRM)
systems.
a‘ áata warehouses facilitate decision support system applications such as trend reports
(e.g., the items with the most sales in a particular area within the last two years),
exception reports, and reports that show actual performance versus goals.

áatawarehousing arises in an organisation's need for reliable, consolidated, unique and

integrated reporting and analysis of its data, at different levels of aggregation.

The practical reality of most organisations is that their data infrastructure is made up by a
collection of heterogeneous systems. For example, an organisation might have one system
that handles customer-relationship, a system that handles employees, systems that handles
sales data or production data, yet another system for finance and budgeting data etc. !n
practice, these systems are often poorly or not at all integrated and simple questions like:
"How much time did sales person c spend on customer C, how much did we sell to Customer
C, was customer C happy with the provided service, áid Customer C pay his bills" can be
very hard to answer, even though the information is available "somewhere" in the different
data systems.

cnother problem is that ERº systems are designed to support relevant operations. For
example, a finance system might keep track of every single stamp bought; When it was
ordered, when it was delivered, when it was paid and the system might offer accounting
principles (like double bookkeeping) that further complicates the data model. Such
information is great for the person in charge of buying "stamps" or the accountant trying to
sort out an irregularity, but the CEO is definitely not interested in such detailed information,
the CEO wants to know stuff like "What's the cost?", "What's the revenue?", "did our latest
initiative reduce costs?".

Yet another problem might be that the organisation is, internally, in disagreement about
which data is correct. For example, the sales department might have one view of its costs,
while the finance department has another view of that cost. !n such cases the organisation can
spend unlimited time discussing who's got the correct view of the data.

!t is partly the purpose of áatawarehousing to bridge such problems. !t is important to note

that in áatawarehousing the source data systems are considered as given: !t is not the task of
the datawarehousing consultant to figure out, that since the problem is that the CRM system
identifies a person by initials, while the Employee-Time-Management system identifies a
person by full name while the ERº system identifies a person by social security number; and
since a person can change his name: things do not work and the organization should invest in
and implement one or two new systems to handle CRM, ERº etc. in a more consistent
manner.

Rather, the datawarehousing consultant is charged with making the data appear consistent,
integrated and consolidated despite the problems in the underlying source systems. The
datawarehousing consultant achieves this by employing different datawarehousing
techniques, creating one or more new data repositories (i.e. the datawarehouse) whose data
model(s) support the needed reporting and analysis.

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Some of the benefits that a data warehouse provides are as follows:[7][8]

a‘ c data warehouse provides a common data model for all data of interest regardless of
the data's source. This makes it easier to report and analyze information than it would
be if multiple data models were used to retrieve information such as sales invoices,
order receipts, general ledger charges, etc.
a‘ ºrior to loading data into the data warehouse, inconsistencies are identified and
resolved. This greatly simplifies reporting and analysis.
a‘ !nformation in the data warehouse is under the control of data warehouse users so
that, even if the source system data is purged over time, the information in the
warehouse can be stored safely for extended periods of time.
a‘
ecause they are separate from operational systems, data warehouses provide
retrieval of data without slowing down operational systems.
a‘ áata warehouses can work in conjunction with and, hence, enhance the value of
operational business applications, notably customer relationship management (CRM)
systems.
a‘ áata warehouses facilitate decision support system applications such as trend reports
(e.g., the items with the most sales in a particular area within the last two years),
exception reports, and reports that show actual performance versus goals.
Some of the benefits that a data warehouse provides are as follows:[7][8]

a‘ c data warehouse provides a common data model for all data of interest regardless of
the data's source. This makes it easier to report and analyze information than it would
be if multiple data models were used to retrieve information such as sales invoices,
order receipts, general ledger charges, etc.
a‘ ºrior to loading data into the data warehouse, inconsistencies are identified and
resolved. This greatly simplifies reporting and analysis.
a‘ !nformation in the data warehouse is under the control of data warehouse users so
that, even if the source system data is purged over time, the information in the
warehouse can be stored safely for extended periods of time.
a‘
ecause they are separate from operational systems, data warehouses provide
retrieval of data without slowing down operational systems.
a‘ áata warehouses can work in conjunction with and, hence, enhance the value of
operational business applications, notably customer relationship management (CRM)
systems.
a‘ áata warehouses facilitate decision support system applications such as trend reports
(e.g., the items with the most sales in a particular area within the last two years),
exception reports, and reports that show actual performance versus goals.
a‘ Here are some of the benefits of a data warehouse:
a‘ o With data warehousing, you can provide a common data model for different interest
areas regardless of data's source. !n this way, it becomes easier to report and analyze
information.
a‘ o Many inconsistencies are identified and resolved before loading of information in
data warehousing. This makes the reporting and analyzing process simpler.
a‘ o The best part of data warehousing is that the information is under the control of
users, so that in case the system gets purged over time, information can be easily and
safely stored for longer time period.
a‘ o
ecause of being different from operational systems, a data warehouse helps in
retrieving data without slowing down the operational system.
a‘ o áata warehousing enhances the value of operational business applications and
customer relationship management systems.
a‘ o áata warehousing also leads to proper functioning of support system applications
like trend reports, exception reports and the actual performance analyzing reports.
a‘ ºrecisely, a data warehouse system proves to be helpful in providing collective
information to all its users. !t is mainly created to support different analysis, queries
that need extensive searching on a larger scale.