Before the iPhone and Xbox, prior to the first Tweet or Facebook “Like,” and well in advance of tablets and the cloud, there was the data warehouse. For 30 years, businesses have centrally stored data ...

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A data warehouse is a big database that uses large stores of transactional data to analyze the business and support decisions. A company can use a data warehouse, for instance, to help segment the ...

A management guide of how enterprises can build an effective data warehouse. The term data warehouse is an ambiguous one. This is because applied in different contexts, data warehouses can take on ...

In the beginning, there were mainframes - computer behemoths that occupied whole rooms and buildings, churning, blinking, beeping and droning, storing information and eventually producing oversized ...

The rise of “data mesh” as a buzz phrase in the data management world has generated significant interest, but is it the right approach for your organization? While data mesh has its proponents, many ...

Traditionally, enterprise data has been kept in information silos that are physically separate from other data repositories and serve specialized functions. Enterprise-wide reporting was difficult at ...

Information gleaned from organized data is one of a pharmaceutical business's most valuable resources. The key word in this statement is "organized," as free-flowing data is significantly different ...

Enterprise data warehouses, or EDWs, are unified databases for all historical data across an enterprise, optimized for analytics. These days, organizations implementing data warehouses often consider ...