Today, data warehouses and analytical applications drive strategic and tactical decision-making. They are critical business assets that companies can’t afford to not get right. In this podcast you will learn from a data warehousing expert about essential best practices to ensure data warehouses and analytic applications meet the needs of business. This means understanding the data in the data warehouse, what is its real value to the business users, how to enable the business users to leverage the data warehouse to generate more value, and what tools data warehouse professionals use to achieve those objectives.