Data Warehousing

Data warehousing is another make work activity that I would lump in with gap analysis.

It’s the idea that there is value somehow in creating a massive database of information pulled from a bunch of different systems.

Why is this a bad idea?

It comes down to lack of clarity as to what problem is being solved. When there isn’t a clear problem being solved then it’s not likely to generate anything of value, the timeline of the project will be unlimited. See boiling the ocean.