Data Warehousing

Tuesday, 09 November 2010 15:59 Last Updated on Friday, 18 May 2012 08:31 Written by Adriane Gillies

Organisations today have vast quantities of data. Although this data contains information that is useful to the business, it can be extremely difficult to gather and report on it. Data Warehousing

There are several key challenges that need to be addressed:

Discovering, collecting and transforming data into a single source of record.
Ensuring that data is relevant an accurate for business reporting.
Storing historical data in a format that enables fast searches across large amounts of data.

Opportunities

If the data that a business holds can be unlocked and provide meaningful information to business users, there are several opportunities:

Business users can have access to relevant information to enable them to make informed decisions.
Fast queries make data more accessible and historical data enables trends to be identified.
Data can be assessed at every level - from an individual purchase to the total sales of a multinational corporation.

Benefits

Designing data warehouses correctly by using a data model will help meet many of today's data challenges. Key benefits include:

Designing structures specifically to enable fast querying for business-centric reporting.
Ensuring that business requirements are met, and reports are accurate and meaningful.
Documenting source and target systems correctly to aid development, ensure effective version control and enhance understanding of the systems.

DSCallards can help you to achieve these benefits, though a solution that combines SAP Business Objects technology with our experienced professional services team.

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