Blog: Colin White

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What Has Business Intelligence Got to Do With Data Warehousing?

It is interesting that whenever we talk about business intelligence we immediately think of it in the context of data warehousing. The two always go together, right? Wrong! I think we have been indoctrinated into thinking this way. We have lost sight of the fact that data warehousing only came about because we couldn't design our operational systems right in the first place.

Posted by Colin White on Thursday, 22 March 2007 | Permalink