Abstract: Organizations, nowadays, strive for excellence in their operations. But, with the increasing complexity in business, they are unable to gain significant competitive advantage. And, this has created a need to evaluate and select an appropriate data warehouse architecture. However, deciding the most suitable data warehouse architecture that fits your business needs – is perhaps, the most crucial activity in the Data Warehouse lifecycle. An architecture best describes the requirements and specifics of an organization. In fact, it helps the management in making right decisions. Thus, organizations should aim at selecting an architecture that is robust, flexible and scalable. Any mistake in this area may affect the overall business goals and performance of the organization. The aim of this research paper is to better understand the factors that must be considered before selecting any data warehouse architecture.
Keywords: Architecture, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, ETL, Selection Factors.
Title: One-Step Ahead Approach for Selection of Data Warehouse Architecture
Author: Jaspreet Kaur, Pravin S. Metkewar
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-120X (online), ISSN 2348-1196 (print)
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