Today's business users are inundated with data and looking for valuable insights from their information. They're challenged to understand and interpret increasing amounts of data and to turn those data into actionable information and informed decisions. Enterprise users want answers to critical questions.

An enterprise data warehouse (EDW) can help answer those questions, but building an EDW can be a daunting task. Conventional wisdom says it's a time-consuming, complex, resource-intensive activity to complete. Teradata logical data models help an enterprise cope with abundant data, compressed business cycle times, and constant economic pressures.