Many manufacturing companies are spending hundreds of millions, or billions, of dollars or euros on enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects to improve and standardize their operational processes. Many years are required to implement these process changes and systems throughout large manufacturing enterprises.

The primary focus of ERP systems is on operational processes — not on business intelligence. Some standard reporting capabilities may be included, but comprehensive decision-making and business intelligence capabilities are not typically available from ERP systems.

An enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is the best solution for business intelligence. An EDW provides comprehensive and timely information meeting the requirements of all levels of executives, management and all knowledge workers throughout the organization who use information to make decisions.

Learn what an EDW is and how it can be used to run your business.