Is there any difference between a data warehouse system and a document management system?
A. Data Warehouse is a hot application topic among large companies nowadays. Document management is related to data warehouse but the later is much more complex. It involves full integration of the capturing, maintenance, archiving and presentation of its corporate data and information into the organization s operation system. Very often, data warehouse systems also provides for the online analysis (OLAP) of corporate data to help in making business decisions. A large scale data warehouse system can cost millions of dollars to implement.
