A data warehouse usually requires data from applications owned by several business organizations. Dealing with several organizational cultures is a hard task. Some organizations are team oriented, but others are very strict when it comes to accessing data from their applications. These cultural issues are compounded when ERP applications are implemented in a company, followed by an ERP data warehouse implementation. In this chapter, you learned about cultural issues related to ERP data warehousing. In addition to cultural issues, you learned how a selected third-party data warehouse offering compares with SAP BW, at a higher level, and the tools currently certified to access/load data from SAP BW.
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