Creating a target data warehouse

Finally, this is the time to create our target data warehouse system. The data warehouse structures and tables will be used by end users with the help of various reporting tools to make sense of the data and analyze it. As a result, it should help business users to make strategic decisions, which will hopefully lead to business growth.

We should not forget that the main purpose of a data warehouse, and hence that of our ETL system, is to serve business needs.

Getting ready

The data warehouse created in this recipe will be used as a target database populated by the ETL processes developed in SAP Data Services. This is where the data modified and cleansed by ETL processes will be inserted in the end. Plus, this is the ...

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