Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse: A central repository of databases that assist in informed decision making.

Data Mart: A type of Data Warehouse which specifically designed for a set of functions.

Business Intelligence: The tool / process used to access & analyze data, and turn them into information / knowledge. It includes decision support & data warehousing.

Data Model: The specification of data structures & business rules needed to support a specific set of functions; usually depicted in entity-relationship (ER) diagram.

Data Mining: An advanced analysis of detail data to discover knowledge, relationship, patterns, and associations between data values.

Query: Slide & Dice (Drill down): Advanced Analysis (Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery)

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