What is Data Warehousing?
In simple words, Data Warehouse is the place where data is stored. Data Warehousing Architecture
plays a very important role as it is the basic building block of Data Warehousing. Data Warehouse
consultants ensure that data is collected from as many sources as possible, stored in a way that it
can be used for multiple purposes and can be used for decision making.
Data Warehousing Tools:
There are many Data Warehousing services and tools which help us in Data Warehouse designing
and implementations. Few best Data Warehousing tools are:
- Amazon Redshift
- Microsoft Azure
- Google BigQuery
- Snowflake
- Teradata
- Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
- IBM Db2 Warehouse
- Oracle Autonomous Warehouse
- MarkLogic
- Cloudera
Common Benefits of Data Warehousing:
Centralize Storage & Data Integration: For real time data processing or batch processing, setting up
a centralized & structured data storage saves time and increases efficiency. Data Warehousing
includes integrating various data sources to get various forms of data at one place.
Business Intelligence Integration: Data warehousing for business intelligence is one of the key
benefits. Meaningful and structured data gives Business Intelligence consultants more efficiency to
play with data.
Business Analytics optimization: A properly stored and structured data helps business to run better
analytics for better business decision making.
Scalability: Data Warehouse architects make sure that it is future ready. Be it storing more data or
utilizing data for a new & different purpose, business can always find solution if Data Warehouse set
up is good.
Security: Data Warehouses also help businesses to increase data security by following various
security standards and practices while setting up the warehouse.
