Data Marts

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Data warehouse’s data is often segmented into specialized components is called Data Marts that address individual components of the Organization. For example, Enterprise Data Warehouse’s data can segmented into Sales Data Mart, Inventory and Shipping Data Mart, Finance Data Mart, Geographical Data Mart, HR and Management Data Mart and so on.

Data Mart is a subset of the Data Warehouse that based on Subjective of Enterprise Business Unit or Team. Each Data Marts may or may not be dependent or related to other Data Marts in the Data Warehouse.



Independent Data Mart can design based Conformed Facts and Dimensions Structure, particular Business Unit or Team can access and manage the data. Periodically, independent data mart is update data from different Online Transaction Database that will not reflect to another data mart in the Data Warehouse.

Dependent Data Mart can design based Conformed Facts and Shared Dimensions Structure, all Business Unit or Team can access and manage the data. An instance, when update Employee information in the Master Data Warehouse Dimension Table that information should reflect into all Data Marts. Periodically, dependent data mart is update data from Master Data Warehouse System.

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