Data warehousing. The frontier of business intelligence

Edward O'Hara

This paper is a short summary of the major findings of a study based upon sixty-two case studies of organizations that have successful data warehouses in use at their sites.

Data warehousing. The frontier of business intelligence.

Edward O'Hara, In2itive Technologies Corporation, Denmark

The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.Thomas Jefferson

For years, technology advocates have promised the ranks of white collar workers the ability to easily access the full breadth of organizational information upon which logical business decisions could be made. With effort after effort proving to fall short of these expectations, many have simply accepted the limitations of technology as the status quo.

In a matter of only a few short years, data warehousing has changed this...

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