About the White Paper:
Increasingly, decision support and data warehousing capabilities are playing a significant role in customers' enterprise applications investments. The strength of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions is in inputting, maintaining, and reporting on day-to-day operational data. The strength of data warehousing is in consolidating volumes of data from numerous data sources and analyzing the data in such a way as to understand business trends, identify potential problems, or assist in forecasting future business requirements. In today?s fast-paced, quickly changing market, there is a fundamental need to combine the strengths of ERP solutions with data warehousing solutions to enable companies to gain better, faster insight into their businesses and respond to changes in the market immediately. In order
to maximize profitability, many companies are evaluating and implementing data warehouses in conjunction with their investments in ERP solutions. |