Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is a data warehouse 3. Past, Present and Future 4. Data Warehouses and Business Organisations 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography 1.0 Introduction In recent years, data warehousing has emerged as the primary method of analysing sales and marketing data for a competitive advantage. As the number of knowledge workers using the data warehouse/data mart grows and the amount of data increases daily, performance problems have become a major concern of both the Information Systems staff and the …showed first 75 words of 3289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3289 total…Experts Bischoff, Joyce and Alexander, Ted (editors); Prentice-Hall; 1997 Data Warehouse und Management Informationssysteme Hannig, Uwe; Schaeffer-Poeschel ; 1996 Data Warehousing Hovi, Ari; Suomen Atk-kustannus; 1997 Data Warehousing Martin, Wolfgang; International Thomson; 1997 Data Warehousing for Dummies Simon, Alan R.; IDG Books; 1997 Data Warehousing Step by Step Barquin, Ramon; Prentice-Hall; 1998 Internet Bibliography http://pwp.starnetinc.com/larryg/index.html http://whatis.com/dataware.htm http://datamation.com/PlugIn/whitepapers/data_warehouse2/datamarts.html http://www.strategy-business.com/technology/96308/page1.html