This concept used by many of the companies around the globe to win the edge of their business competitions, where for survive in today’s competitive world they should be able to predict or forecast their business plans for tomorrow or for the next hour.

Before going deep in to these concepts we should know few things clearly with out getting confused around the terms and norms mean which are regularly used in the industry Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence is interchangeably used in the industry, where Business Intelligence is commonly used by Microsoft now days instead of the term Data Warehousing, this term “Data Warehousing” dose not mean exactly “Data Warehouse” it is a bigger picture than that of a read-only collection of accumulated historical data store which is called as a data warehouse, all this stored data is represented to the end users with the help of BI systems or tools such has Proclarity, Business Scorecard Manager, Reports etc., this entire process is known as Business Intelligence or Data warehousing .

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DW means that the Dimensional data store and OLAP data store which will include the BI application or exclude the BI applications that is Business intelligence system or tools (i.e. Reports, Score cards, Dash boards etc.) ,when you are referring to BI it could include the DW or exclude it