The future of all industries is contingent on our capability to use the gigantic amounts of data now accessible to drive better quality at a lower cost. If you can’t complete analytics to make sense...

The future of all industries is contingent on our capability to use the gigantic amounts of data now accessible to drive better quality at a lower cost. If you can’t complete analytics to make sense of your data, you will have problems improving quality and costs, and you will not prosper in the new environment. A question we frequently get in the field is: we already have a database, so why do we need a data warehouse for analytics? What is the difference between a database vs. a data warehouse?