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What are Data Marts?

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What are Data Marts?

Data Marts are designed to help manager make strategic decisions about their business.
Data Marts are subset of the corporate-wide data that is of value to a specific group of users.

There are two types of Data Marts:

1.Independent data marts – sources from data captured form OLTP system, external providers or from data generated locally within a particular department or geographic area.

2.Dependent data mart – sources directly form enterprise data warehouses.

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