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Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10
Oracle Data Warehousing and Business
Intelligence 10
Although a database is general-purpose software, it provides a solution for a variety
of technical requirements, including:
Recording and storing data
Reliably storing data and protecting each user??™s data from the effects of other
users??™ changes
Reading data for online viewing and reports
Providing a consistent view of the data
Analyzing data
Summarizing data, detecting trends and data relationships, and forecasting
The last two solutions can be deployed as a data warehouse, part of an infrastructure
that provides business intelligence used in strategic and tactical management of the
corporation or organization. Such solutions expose valuable business information
embedded in an organization??™s data stores.
Data warehousing and business intelligence solutions are now widely deployed and
new projects continue to be extremely popular. There is a very simple reason behind
this trend: such projects are seen as core to the business and provide a return on
investment that can be grasped by the business community.
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