Monday, 10 March 2014

Chapter 8 : Accessing Organizational Information- Data Warehouse

DATA WAREHOUSE FUNDAMENTALS

- A data warehouse is a logical collection of information-gathered from many different operational database-that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.

- The primary purpose of a data warehouse is to aggregate information throughout an organization into a single repository in such a way that employees can make decisions and undertake business analysis activities.
- The data warehouse then send subsets of the information to data mart.
- A data mart contains a subsets of data warehouse information
*Figure above show compiles information from internal database or transactional database and external database through extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) which a process that extracts information from internal and external database, transforms the information using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads the information into a data warehouse.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING

- A cube is the common term for the representation of multidimensional information.
Data Mining is the process of analyzing data to extract information not to offered by the raw data alone. It is known as 'knowledge discovery'
- To perform data mining user needs data mining tools 
Data Mining Tools use a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes in information and infer rules from them that predict future behaviour and guide decision making

INFORMATION CLEANSING OR SCRUBBING

- Information cleansing or scrubbing is a process that weeds out and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect or incomplete information.
- It occur during ETL process and second on the information once if is in the data warehouse

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

- Business Intelligence refers to application and technologies that are use to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information to support decision-making efforts. 

Enabling Business Intelligence
- Technology
- People
- Culture

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