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Data Warehouses are Merely the Latest in a Long Line of Reporting Tools and Will Only Benefit Retail Businesses.
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Data Warehouses are Merely the Latest in a Long Line of Reporting Tools and Will Only Benefit Retail Businesses Data warehouses and the process of data warehousing is the latest development in the field of reporting tools, examples of which can include Oracle and Microsoft Excel. Whether this is 'merely' what they are is an issue that will be investigated in depth during this essay. The other main topic that will be discussed is if they can only benefit businesses that operate in the retail sector, or if they can offer any advantages to organisations operating outside that particular industry. A data warehouse can be defined in a number of different ways. Kimball (2002,p.310) describes it as "a copy of transaction data specifically structured for querying and reporting." The website Systems Services Corporation - Data Warehousing gives a much more comprehensive definition, saying a data warehouse is "a structured extensible...
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