DATA SOURCES DATA ACQUISITION DATA WAREHOUSE DATA DELIVERY DATA CONSUMPTION

operational systems extraction central repository user-facing applications business intelligence

transactional systems transformation subject-based data marts report generation decision-support
modeling metadata subject-based data cubes OLAP
loading operational data store data mining querying
reporting

Data
Source Warehouse Application Web Client
Servers Interfaces
Database

Data
Mart

E Decision Support Desktop

Source Metadata
Database T Servers Interfaces
L

Operational
Data Store

Other
Sources Data Cube
(e.g. files,
spreadsheets)