MGT 300 CHAPTER 8 : ACCESSING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION - DATA WAREHOUSE
LEARNING OUTCOMES :
- Describe the roles and purposes of data warehouse and data marts in an organization
- Compare the multidimensional nature of data warehouses with the two-dimensional nature of databases
- Identify the importance of ensuring the cleanliness of information throughout an organization
- Explain the relationship between business intelligence and a data warehouse
- HISTORY of DATA WAREHOUSING
- Data warehouses extend the transformation of data into information. In the 1990's executive became less concerned with the day-to-day business operations and more concerned with overall business functions. The data warehouse provided the ability to support decision making without disrupting the day-to-day operations.
- DATA WAREHOUSE FUNDAMENTALS
- Data warehouse : a logical collection of information to gathered from many different operational databases that can supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.
- Extraction transformation, and loading (ETL) : is a process that extract information from external and internal databases, transforms the information using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads the information into a data warehouse
- Data mart : contains a subset of data warehouse information
- MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING
- CUBE : is a common term for the representation of multidimensional information
-Data mining : is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.
* Data mining tools: uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information and infers rules that predict future behavior and guide decision making
- INFORMATION CLEANSING or SCRUBBING
- Information cleansing and scrubbing is a process that weeds outs and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect or incomplete information.
- Contact information in an operational system
- Standardizing Customers name from Operational Systems
- Information cleansing activities
- Accurate and complete information
- BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
- Business intelligence is information that people use to support their decision making efforts.
- Principle of BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE enablers include :
- TECHNOLOGY :
- The largest company today can create enterprisewide BI systems that compute and monitor metrics on virtually every variable important for managing the compony.
2. PEOPLE :
- Understanding the role of people in BI allows organizations to systematically create insight and turn these insights into actions
3. CULTURE :
- A key responsibility of executives is to shape and manage corporate culture. The extent to which the BI attitude flourishes in an organization depends in large part on the organization's culture.
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