Data Warehousing

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Description:

With costs of data storage decreasing dramatically, storing information forever has become a reality. Companies and governments are now able to store as much information as they want for an unspecified time and data mine or retrieve this information at any given moment. For instance, Google will store all your search queries and offers an email service which has ben designed so that you never have to delete anything, and even if you delete it, it will still be stored on their servers.

Enablers:

• decreasing costs data storage
• replacement of traditional processes with digital applications
• Mass digitalization
• Disclosure for tax purposes
• Cost of Computer Resources
• Network Bandwidth
• Electronic banking

Inhibitors:

• Privacy laws
• Public resistance

Timing:

late 1980s and early 1990s : Data Warehouses became a distinct type of computer database

Web Resources:

• Bill Inmon|William H. Inmon, Richard D. Hackathorn: Using the Data Warehouse, John Wiley & Son's, ISBN 0-471-05966-8
• Pyle, Dorian. Business Modeling and Data Mining. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. ISBN 1-55860-653-X
• Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross: The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-20024-7
• Stephen Haag, Maeve Cummings, Donald J. McCubbery, Alain Pinsonneault, Richard Donvan:Managements Information System for the Information Age, Third Canadian Edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, ISBN 0-07-095569-7
• Information Technology Data Warehouse
• Data Warehousing Gotchas
• ODP - Data Warehouse Resources
• ODP - Data Warehouse Articles