http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2007/08/10/business-intelligence-data-warehousing-and-data-marts.aspxThe terms Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Data Marts are used interchangeably by many people so I thought it would be good to explain the differences. The data warehouse is the repository for all the data to be analysed and reported on withouten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2007/08/10/business-intelligence-data-warehousing-and-data-marts.aspx#1733683Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:02:56 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1733683Top News Online Business What If American Business Is Not Penalized For Success? <p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.newsglobe.info/business/what-if-american-business-is-not-penalized-for-success.html">http://www.newsglobe.info/business/what-if-american-business-is-not-penalized-for-success.html</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1733683" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2007/08/10/business-intelligence-data-warehousing-and-data-marts.aspx#1732111Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:18:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1732111Gurpreet<p>Nice explanation. Its right that you have to first frame the architecture and then the solution.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1732111" width="1" height="1">