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Federated Data Marts are used to map multiple stand-alone Data Marts into a single integrated entity that looks and bahaves like a single Data Warehouse.

The individual Data Marts remain independent, so a Federated approach is a practical alternative to the challenging task of merging several different data sources in a manner which might involve updating a complex Data Warehouse.

We could define this approach as a commbination of Kimball and Inmon.

Click here for a good introduction from Information Management.com.



1) Federated Data Marts


Federated Data Marts

2) Data Lake Model
('Data Lake' used by Gartner)

Logical Data Model

3) Federated Data Marts for Customers and Transactions

Federated Data Marts for Customers and Transactions

4) Federated Data Marts for Corporate Services and Treasury

Federated Data Marts for Corporate Services and Treasury


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