The report, 'The Crumbling Foundations of Data Warehouses' by Dynamic Markets, was released yesterday at the Data Warehouse Institute World Conference in Orlando, Florida. It surveyed data warehouse managers in the top 2,000 UK companies.
Nearly 100% of respondents felt that their users are becoming more demanding and 86% were having to restrict user queries in order to alleviate the strain on their technology and their teams. Managers said users were demanding faster retrieval of data, were coming up with more complex requests and were more interested in exploring older data.
More than 60% of respondents said they expected to increase the manpower allocated to their data warehouse in the next three to five years.
Sand's approach is to improve the efficiency of data resources by tiering data according to its business value. Less than 20% of the respondents tiered their storage in this way.
Robert Thompson, vice-president of marketing at Sand, said: "It is alarming to see the impact of the pressure from both users and increasing data volumes on the data warehouse.
"More than two-thirds of the respondents admitted that these pressures are negatively affecting performance, and that the traditional 'one-size fits all' architecture is struggling to keep up with the demands being placed upon it. Sand believes the solution lies in an intelligent data warehouse design that acknowledges the changing business value of data and applies resources accordingly."
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