Tuesday, October 2, 2007

 

Data Warehouse Access Tools

The principal purpose of data warehousing is to providing information to business users for strategic decision making.

These users interact with data warehouse using front-end tools. Although regular reports and custom reports are the primary delivery vehicles for analysis done in most data warehouse, many development efforts in data warehouse arena are focusing on exceptional reporting also known as alerts.

Example: If the data warehouse designed for accessing the risk for currency treading, an alert can be activated when a certain currency rate drops below a predefined threshold.

Access tools can be divided in to five main groups.

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