The Data Warehouse Business Plan will help you establish a clear scope and direction for your data warehouse (DW) program, as well as identify potential pitfalls and risks.

The steps that are outlined in the business plan can be broadly categorized as:

Info-Tech analysts are frequently asked a seemingly simple question: “Should we deploy a data warehouse before our BI initiative or should we wait?” While the question is simple, the answer is not. Info-Tech's guidelines assist decision makers through this challenge.

Improvement & Optimization

1.Treat data quality as a business problem. CIOs must not take ownership of the data cleansing initiative. Instead, they need to convince their C-level colleagues to place responsibility for data quality where it really belongs - in the business.