What is Data Warehousing

A comprehensive technology that provides the key people within an enterprise with access to any level of required information within the enterprise. It is an enterprise wide framework that permits the management of all enterprise information.

Extracting data from legacy systems and other resources; cleaning, scrubbing and preparing da|a for dmcision support; maintaining data in appropriate data stores; accessing and analyzing data using a variety of end user tools; and mining data for significant relationships. The primary purpose of these efforts is to provide easy access to specifically prepared data that can be used with decision support applications such as management reports, queries, decision support systems, executive information systems and data mining.