Loosely Coupled glossaryDefinitions of terms and concepts in web services and process automationdata warehouse- May 17, 2005 A large store of data for analysis. Organizations use data warehouses (and smaller 'data marts') to help them analyze historic transaction data to detect useful patterns and trends. First of all the data is transferred into the data warehouse using a process called extracting, transforming and loading (ETL). Then it is organized and stored in the data warehouse in ways that optimize it for high-performance analysis. The transfer to a separate data warehouse system, which is usually performed as.http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/data%20warehouse object-oriented- May 17, 2005 (OO) Structured around functional units. Object-oriented programming languages such as C++, SmallTalk and Java are designed to build software made up of objects: discrete bundles of functionality that can act on data only in certain pre-defined ways. This modular building-block approach makes complex software development tasks more flexible and easier to manage within a given programming environment. The emergence of object-oriented programming was a stepping stone to the development of...http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/object-oriented |