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Vanessa Schulte@ENRON
09/11/2000 02:52 PM
To: Nicki Daw/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Joel Henenberg/NA/Enron@Enron, Mary Solmonson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Scott 
Williamson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cindy Wisemiller/HOU/ECT@ECT 
Subject: Trade Warehouse Mtg - Purpose

Hi Nicki,
Thanks for setting up the meeting next Wednesday (9/20) at 2:30 with M. 
Frevert, D. Delainey, J. Shankman, and J. Lavorato.  Here is a brief overview 
of the meeting objective:

Purpose
To gain support and approval for a data warehouse vision containing 
consolidated trade information with centralized access.

Background
The definition of a data warehouse is a place to consolidate information 
originating from multiple transaction processing systems and platforms into a 
common database repository.  The idea of an Enron &Trade Warehouse8 
originated from members of the London office and has been expanded to include 
the Houston systems.  The need for a Trade Warehouse stems from the 
requirement of multiple departments needing to access consolidated deal 
information for analytical reporting and down-stream processing.   Currently, 
deal information is held in separate trading systems both within product 
process flows from mid to back office, and across product lines. The 
information is also stored across multiple system platforms and is not easily 
accessible or consistently presented across the various trading products 
within Enron. Given this current architecture, it is very difficult and 
costly to access timely, quality-assured, and consolidated cross-product deal 
information for analytical reporting and down-stream processing.

Proposal
Houston will use the warehouse as the data source for EnTelligence and 
numerous analytical reporting application systems.  These analytical 
reporting application systems can include, but are not limited to, 
Operational Pricing Module (OPM), EnronOnline, and Daily Position Report 
(DPR).  Once the warehouse is in place, it may be used as the source for 
additional downstream systems as well as Investor Relations reporting.