Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) plans to consolidate its 762 data marts around the world into a single enterprise data warehouse, according to the head of the company. The move is a way for HP to both get a ...

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A database designed to support decision making in an organization. Data from the production databases are copied to the data warehouse so that queries can be performed without disturbing the ...

Building EDW is a strategic initiative since it requires shift in culture, longer timescale & more importantly it is an expensive affaire. Hence, it should be one of the top agendas of the CXOs and ...

A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. THIS ...

Almost seven years ago, in a hotel meeting room in Manhattan, Mike Olson, then Cloudera's CEO, briefed me on the still confidential Cloudera project called Impala. I think Olson knew he was preaching ...

Data warehouse design is not a short-term investment and it’s important to understand that the process will rarely show results in a limited time frame. By looking toward the future, you’ll be more ...

Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a storage repository that holds an enormous amount of raw or ...

The Boston College Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) supports reporting and analytics over a broad spectrum of University data. Developed in 2003, the EDW has advanced in terms of content, information ...