Historically, building a data warehouse is a painstaking endeavor. You have to decide on specific data warehousing software and then determine and secure the proper balance of hardware and storage to allocate. After the physical makeup of the data warehouse is determined, you are tasked with building both the physical system and the logical data models. This whole process introduces risk every time the data warehouse is changed, leaving you with new questions and doubts. IBM dashDB is a fast, fully-managed, cloud data warehouse that uses integrated analytics to deliver answers in an instant.