Metrics that should be developed to measure the performance of a data warehouse in the following environments: 1) health care, 2) retail and 3) pharma.

In most of the Database guide papers, eight performance-based metrics were used to communicate areas of concern to the data warehousing vendor. Also, the ninth one was developed as a weighted average measure using four of the eight metrics, which were deemed the most critical to the organization assessing data warehouse performance to determine how the vendor stacked up relative to data quality and systems quality. The nine metrics that were developed to measure Solectron's, …

…speeds decision-making. Gigabytes of research are now centrally located, electronically available and easily accessible to everyone concerned, so the decision makers can make smarter, timely decisions. - Simultaneous submissions - eliminates the redundancy of reapplying for approval in different world markets. Finally, in terms of Payton and Handfield paper, we can say that the data warehouse within pharma environment should have the features of; Completeness, Data Integrity, On-Time Delivery, Cycle-Time, Run-Time, and the ninth measure.