What does "data warehouse" mean?

A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.

Data warehouse

Common synonyms include: analytical database, cloud data warehouse, cloud warehouse, data center, data repository, data warehousing.

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A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.

Coined by IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy in 1988.