Select the image in the right margin to display the graphic that visually represents the warehousing concept. Areas of the Data Warehousing Overview image are hot links directly to the discussion of that concept or action. Just move your mouse over the image to find the links. Let's take a look. The architecture of a warehouse refers to the tools and products that are required to create your warehouse as well as the tools and products that are necessary to achieve the ultimate business goals set for your warehouse.
Most warehousing architectures involve multiple tools and products.
This is true for the SAS data warehousing implementation, which utilizes components that manage the process of moving and converting data as well as optimizing data for decision support. SAS provides all of the components that you need, including the SAS suite of decision support tools. Once the data is available to SAS, it can be transformed and loaded into data warehouses, data marts, specialized data stores, and reports. Use the DATA step and SAS procedures to transform, consolidate, reformat, and cleanse your data. The data warehousing process begins with your operational data sources and ends with your decision support applications and reports.