A good article on Data Architecture.

I have been working on tuning two slow reports and learnt that Data Architecture needs great attention especially at the project inception. Searching for more on it I came across a link which mentions that Data Architecture is across four prime areas - Organize, Store, Access & Move. In my scenario I found that some reports are slow due to less focus on Store say for e.g. partitioning not done or in other reports Organize as data growth is not considered and hence not designed for scalability/Performance

http://www.information-management.com/issues/20020301/4801-1.html