Analyze the data warehouse
Discover what data exists
Generate high-level summaries
Highlight insights and interesting data that is found
Assess the value of the data warehouse.
Management’s ultimate goal is one of budgeting. If your team is able to show advantages of using the data, then management will expand use of the data warehouse and provide additional funding and personnel. Otherwise, they will cut funding and the data warehouse will simply become a repository for old data.
