Data Warehousing & Data Governance

A Data warehouse is an integrated, centralized decision support database and the related software programs used to collect, cleanse, transform and store data from a variety of operational sources to support business intelligence." DAMA Dictionary of Data Management, 1st Edition 2008.

DAMA DMBOK recommends developing a data strategy as an initial step in establishing a Data Governance function and organization. A Data Strategy is a vision and direction and a set of choices and decisions that chart a high level course of action to achieve high level goals for Data Governance and the Data Management Functions. A Data Strategy provides a plan for maintaining and improving data quality, data integrity, data security and data access for the data warehouse. The data strategy also identifies business plans to use information to support strategic direction, priorities and service improvements.

Data and information created from data are now widely recognized as assets for an organization. Data and information enable effective decision making and business rely on access to, and analysis of meaningful data for evaluating performance and improving services