Patent ID: 7587388

Claim:
A method of data warehousing incoming data from a reporting application, the method comprising: receiving raw data from the reporting application; selecting a time marker, wherein the time marker relates to a product cycle milestone; sampling the received raw data at a first sampling rate when a rate of incoming raw data exceeds a threshold level associated with the time marker; storing a first sampled data portion in a first memory medium, the first sampled data portion sampled at the first sampling rate; changing to a second sampling rate when the rate of incoming raw data falls below the threshold level associated with the time marker, the second sampling rate lower than the first sampling rate; sampling the received raw data at the second sampling rate; and storing a second sampled data portion in a second memory medium, the second sampled data portion sampled at the second sampling rate, wherein the first memory medium operates at a higher access speed than the second memory medium.