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A Data Warehouse Stores Data From Current and Previous Years

A data warehouse stores current and historical data extracted from an organization's operational databases, cleaning and standardizing it to serve as a central source of information for managers and professionals. The concept originated in the late 1980s when researchers developed the "business data warehouse" to provide an architectural model for moving data from operational systems to decision support environments more cost-effectively. This addressed issues like redundant data and independent decision support systems requiring the same information from legacy sources.

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A Data Warehouse Stores Data From Current and Previous Years

A data warehouse stores current and historical data extracted from an organization's operational databases, cleaning and standardizing it to serve as a central source of information for managers and professionals. The concept originated in the late 1980s when researchers developed the "business data warehouse" to provide an architectural model for moving data from operational systems to decision support environments more cost-effectively. This addressed issues like redundant data and independent decision support systems requiring the same information from legacy sources.

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A data warehouse stores data from current and previous years data extracted from the

various operational databases of an organization. It becomes the central source of data


that has been screened, edited, standardized and integrated so that it can be used by
managers and other end-user professionals throughout an organization
The concept of data warehousing dates bac to the late !"#$s when I%& researchers
Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy developed the 'business data warehouse'. In essence,
the data warehousing concept was intended to provide an architectural model for the flow
of data from operational systems to decision support environments. The concept
attempted to address the various problems associated with this flow - mainly, the high
costs associated with it. In the absence of a data warehousing architecture, an enormous
amount of redundancy was re(uired to support multiple decision support environments.
In larger corporations it was typical for multiple decision support environments to operate
independently. )ach environment served different users but often re(uired much of the
same data. The process of gathering, cleaning and integrating data from various sources,
usually long existing operational systems *usually referred to as legacy systems+, was
typically in part replicated for each environment. &oreover, the operational systems were
fre(uently reexamined as new decision support re(uirements emerged. ,ften new
re(uirements necessitated gathering, cleaning and integrating new data from'data marts'
that were tailored for ready access by users.

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