What is a data warehouse? What problems does it solve for a business?
A data warehouse is a place where data is stored for archival purpose, analysis purpose.
Usually a data warehouse is either a single computer or many computers servers tied together to create one giant computer systems.
Data warehouse solve a lot of problems to companies as it helps to structure files and avoid unnecessary duplication of data.
Data warehouse also allows to easily updating data and encourages management to regard data as a resource that must be properly managed just as any other resources.
Question1B
What do you see as the benefits of using a web-like browser to access information from a data warehouse?
The benefits of using a web browser to access information from a data warehouse is that it allows users to have access to different search engines and opens up different links with the relevance key search.
Some results will be more complete than others as they have different ways of indexing websites.
Using a web browser to access information from a data warehouse is also useful as the links give you access to images and videos which interact users but can also slow down the logon level of speed operations meaning that the data warehouse is accessed at a fast speed.
Question2
The SAP system is a collection of software that performs standard business functions for corporations. Here are some applications developed by SAP for consumers use, they are regrouped into categories of utilities[1].
Financials applications
The SAP Financials applications contain all of the functionality needed for enterprise-wide financial management. These include:
• Financial Accounting (FI), Provides a complete financial accounting solution, including income statements, balance sheets, journals, ledgers, and all areas of financial accounting. • Enterprise Controlling (EC): Assists in controller tasks. • Capital Investment Management (IM): Assists finance organizations in