Huffman Trucking Data Warehouse Report
Huffman Trucking Data Warehouse
Jason Raines
DBM/502
06/26/2014
Anup Majumder
Huffman Trucking Data Warehouse
Huffman trucking was founded by K Huffman in 1936 with a single tractor trailer. The massive and fast growth of the company was a direct result of WWII because of the increase in carrier services east to west. “By 1945, the fleet had increased in size to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. The business relationship forged with the U.S. Government continues today” (Apollo Group, 2012).This growth continued for Huffman when internal sales sky rocketed. Soon after Huffman acquired 5 eastern regional carries helping the company spread its business ventures further enabling more business to thrive. Huffman trucking has grown to 1,400 employees and has more than 800 trailers on the open road providing carrier services all over the country. Along with its growth Huffman has to think about securing it data and implementing a process in order to control this data. The implementation of a data warehousing project would greatly improve the integrity of their data.
The most important aspect of having data warehousing is the fact that it allows for data storage and presentation of this data enabling executives to make sound decisions. Another important use of data warehousing is it takes the separate areas the company is divided up in and takes it all and lumps it in to one single entity. One great benefit of data warehousing is that Huffman will be able to handle server task connected to all queries which is not commonly found in all systems. “Another powerful benefit of data warehouses is that they allow companies to use data modeling for querying tasks that are quite difficult for transaction processing” (Exforsys, 2007). Huffman trucking is already successful but by implementing a success data warehousing system they would be able to understand and analyze all data coming in and leaving the system better and at a more efficient rate. Attached to this report is a
Jason Raines
DBM/502
06/26/2014
Anup Majumder
Huffman Trucking Data Warehouse
Huffman trucking was founded by K Huffman in 1936 with a single tractor trailer. The massive and fast growth of the company was a direct result of WWII because of the increase in carrier services east to west. “By 1945, the fleet had increased in size to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. The business relationship forged with the U.S. Government continues today” (Apollo Group, 2012).This growth continued for Huffman when internal sales sky rocketed. Soon after Huffman acquired 5 eastern regional carries helping the company spread its business ventures further enabling more business to thrive. Huffman trucking has grown to 1,400 employees and has more than 800 trailers on the open road providing carrier services all over the country. Along with its growth Huffman has to think about securing it data and implementing a process in order to control this data. The implementation of a data warehousing project would greatly improve the integrity of their data.
The most important aspect of having data warehousing is the fact that it allows for data storage and presentation of this data enabling executives to make sound decisions. Another important use of data warehousing is it takes the separate areas the company is divided up in and takes it all and lumps it in to one single entity. One great benefit of data warehousing is that Huffman will be able to handle server task connected to all queries which is not commonly found in all systems. “Another powerful benefit of data warehouses is that they allow companies to use data modeling for querying tasks that are quite difficult for transaction processing” (Exforsys, 2007). Huffman trucking is already successful but by implementing a success data warehousing system they would be able to understand and analyze all data coming in and leaving the system better and at a more efficient rate. Attached to this report is a