Data Warehouse System In Chain Store

Today, computer Management Information Systems(MIS) have already been applied in every walk of life along with the popularization of computer and database technology. During the operation of MIS, a large amount of data accumulated, which fully recorded the company status in different periods. So it becomes the hotspot in the research of database that how to manage and analyze these operation data effectively and draw information data from them. Under this background, Data Warehouse technology was put forward. W. H. Inmon put forward the concept characteristic and correlative theory of Data Warehouse in his book Building the Data Warehouse which was published in 1992. After that, many database companies brought out their solutions on Data Warehouse, such as MetCube of Informix, Express of Oracle, etc; and many organizations such as Stanford University, Data Warehouse Center, etc. engaged in the research of Data Warehousing, and raised many constructive theory. In nowadays, developing a data warehouse system for a chain-store is not a dream. In the research of Data Warehousing, how to organize data efficiently and develop Data Warehouse System in middle or small scale businesses is a problem. In this article, you will find answers of these questions ,like , what the components of a data warehouse system, what a data warehouse, what OLAP. Besides, it gives you an example of a chain-store data warehouse system, Mingzhu data warehouse system.