A layered architecture for enterprise data warehouse systems

Abstract

The architecture of Data Warehouse systems is described on basis of so-called reference architectures. Today's requirements to Enterprise Data Warehouses are often too complex to be satisfactorily achieved by the rather rough descriptions of this reference architecture. We describe an architecture of dedicated layers to face those complex requirements, and point out additional expenses and resulting advantages of our approach compared to the traditional one. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.