
Data Warehouse
Most IT systems are designed to record the day to day transactions of a particular part of a Stockbroking enterprise. Typical back-office settlement systems will record the trading activity, stock and cash flows but not necessarily customer interactions. A problem with many of these systems is that they are unable to cope with the different reporting paradigms that are required for actuarial and marketing reporting.
The Data Warehouse was designed to minimise the amount of time spent searching for knowledge and maximise the amount of time actioning knowledge, a system designed for reporting and summarising knowledge enterprise wide. The key benefits to the data warehouse are: