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Problems of Data Warehousing

The problems associated with developing and

managing a data warehousing are as follows:
Underestimation of resources of data loading
Some times we underestimate the time required to
extract, clean, and load the data into the warehouse. It
may take the significant proportion of the total
development time, although some tools are there which
are used to reduce the time and effort spent on this
process.
Hidden problems with source systems
Some times hidden .problems associated with the
source systems feeding the data warehouse may be
identified after years of being undetected. For example,
when entering the details of a new property, certain
fields may allow nulls which may result in staff
entering incomplete property data, even when
available and applicable.
Required data not captured
In some cases the required data is not captured by the
source systems which may be very important for the
data warehouse purpose. For example the date of
registration for the property may be not used in source
system but it may be very important analysis purpose.
Increased end-user demands
After satisfying some of end-users queries, requests for
support from staff may increase rather than decrease.
This is caused by an increasing awareness of the users
on the capabilities and value of the data warehouse.
Another reason for increasing demands is that once a
data warehouse is online, it is often the case that the
number of users and queries increase together with
requests for answers to more and more complex
queries.
Data homogenization
The concept of data warehouse deals with similarity of
data formats between different data sources. Thus,
results in to lose of some important value of the data.
High demand for resources
The data warehouse requires large amounts of data.
Data ownership
Data warehousing may change the attitude of end-users
to the ownership of data. Sensitive data that owned by
one department has to be loaded in data warehouse for
decision making purpose. But some time it results in to
reluctance of that department because it may hesitate
to share it with others.
High maintenance
Data warehouses are high maintenance systems. Any
reorganization· of the business processes and the
source systems may affect the data warehouse and it
results high maintenance cost.
Long-duration projects
The building of a warehouse can take up to three years,
which is why some organizations are reluctant in
investigating in to data warehouse. Some only the
historical data of a particular department is captured in
the data warehouse resulting data marts. Data marts
support only the requirements of a particular
department and limited the functionality to that
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Complexity of integration
The most important area for the management of a data
warehouse is the integration capabilities. An
organization must spend a significant amount of time
determining how well the various different data
warehousing tools can be integrated into the overall
solution that is needed. This can be a very difficult task,
as there are a number of tools for every operation of
the data warehouse.

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