Sometimes you may want to apply data warehousing techniques to the jbpm process logs. Data warehousing means that you create a separate database containing the process logs to be used for various purposes.

There may be many reasons why you want to create a data warehouse with the process log information. Sometimes it might be to offload heavy queryies from the 'live' production database. In other situations it might be to do some extensive analysis. Data warehousing even might be done on a modified database schema which is optimized for its purpose.

In this section, we only want to propose the technique of warehousing in the context of jBPM. The purposes are too diverse, preventing a generic solution to be included in jBPM that could cover all those requirements.