An approach to database management that involves moving existing operational files and databases from multiple applications to a data warehouse.
A system that stores, retrieves and organises large quantities of data. A data warehouse software system can normally compress data to facilitate searches and data filtering.
The act of storing information in a data warehouse.
The process of creating, organizing, managing and using data warehouses for business decision-making purposes.
A generic term for a system for storing, retrieving and managing large amounts of any type of data. Data warehouse software often includes sophisticated compression and hashing techniques for fast searches, as well as advanced filtering. Source: Foldoc: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
According to Bill Inmon, "the Data Warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile collection of data used to support the strategic decision-making process for the enterprise. It is the central point of data integration for business intelligence and is the source of data for the data marts, delivering a common view of enterprise data." Read more...
An enterprise-wide implementation that replicates data from the same publication table on different servers/platforms to a single subscription table. This implementation effectively consolidates data from multiple sources.
A data warehouse is a central repository (or ‘storehouseâ€(tm)) for data that an enterprise's various business systems collect. Data from various online applications and other sources is selectively extracted and organised in the data warehouse for useful analysis and access.