Description: In today’s business world, data warehouses are increasingly being used to help companies make strategic business decisions. To understand how a warehouse can benefit you and what is required to manage a warehouse, you must first understand how a data warehouse is constructed and established. Some of the challenges associated with implementing a data warehouse are understood by answering these questions:
+ What is the quality of data in the warehouse?
+ What are the definitions of the data elements in the warehouse?
+ How current should the warehouse data be?
+ How can you correlate warehouse data to operational data?
+ What is the physical size of a warehouse?
+ What hardware and software will be used for the warehouse?
