... industry is described. One of the technology areas that will be critical to supporting this business model is data warehousing. Data warehousing is the process of integrating enterprise wide corporate data into a single repository. The resulting data warehouse may then support a variety of decision analysis functions as well as strategic operational functions. The " ... father" of the data-warehousing concept, W. H. Inmon, states that a data warehouse is a "subject oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection of data in support of management's decision-making process." Benef...

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