More data

"Every day we create reams of data in customer relationship management applications, order entry applications, and warehouse management systems. We're drowning in a sea of data. However, even with all that data we don't have a large amount of information. We have the ones and zeros of the transactions, but we don't have the answers we need to simple questions like:

• "Why was March better than February?"
  
• "Where is the sales force having the most success?"
  
• "In what conditions does the sales team struggle with making sales?"

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• TechRepublic Tutorial: Data warehousing defined

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