The document discusses the benefits of a logical data warehouse architecture. It notes that a logical data warehouse provides a flexible architecture that can accommodate shifts in analytical technologies. In contrast to a physical data warehouse, a logical data warehouse easily incorporates new technologies without impacting business users. Key benefits include fulfilling data warehousing goals of analyzing enterprise data from all sources, democratizing data consumption, and centralizing business definitions to avoid replication across reporting tools.

2. Logical Data Warehouse: The Foundation
of Modern Data and Analytics
Ravi Shankar
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

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The Evolution to Logical Data Warehouse

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Why a Logical Data Warehouse is Needed?
• The analytical technology landscape has shifted over time.
• You need a flexible architecture that will allow you to embrace those shifts rather
than tie you down to a monolithic approach.
• Only a logical architecture will easily accommodate such changes, and not a
physical architecture.
• IT should be able to adopt newer technologies without impacting business users.

7. Logical Data Warehouse Architecture
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Data Virtualization Layer

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Benefits of Logical Data Warehouse
• Logical Data Warehouse is a modern data architecture, not a product.
• It fulfills the data warehouse mission — the ability to perform analysis from all
enterprise data.
• It democratizes the consumption of analytical data – business users can use any
reporting tool.
• Universal Semantic Layer – centralize common business definitions in the data
virtualization layer and avoid replicating it in each reporting tool.
The LDW future-proofs for your analytics systems

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