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Warehouse

A building in which goods are stored, especially in large quantities and for commercial purposes. Warehouses may be used to store imports before they are distributed, commodities whose contracts are being traded, goods intended for retail sale, and many other purposes. Goods stored in warehouses may be owned by a company and sold to another for resale. Warehousing is an important part of many supply chains. See also: Wholesale.

warehouse

business premises used by a manufacturer to STORE both raw materials, components etc. (materials store) and final products (finished goods store), and by WHOLESALERS and RETAILERS to store finished products in the course of distribution to buyers. See DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL, MATERIALS MANAGEMENT, AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, ORDER PROCESSING, PICK LIST.

warehouse

A commercial storage building. Zoning regulations and building codes may place restrictions on the placement and construction styles of warehouses. See bailment for the rights and responsibilities of parties.

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Certainly, there are business intelligence tools that--with varying degrees of difficulty, time, expense and resources--are capable of accessing these ad-hoc data sources and potentially integrating them into the information residing in the data warehouse.

Business intelligence integration: extending the information net. (Storage Networking)

Study respondents also cited the lack of universal accessibility to data being stored in the warehouse system as a challenge to users.

Building a Better Warehouse

The Internet has really been the key to unlocking the potential of data warehouses," said Bob Conway, the Connecticut regional director for Pinnacle Decision Systems, a professional services and software development company in Middletown, Connecticut.