Experts: A good data warehouse improves decision-making
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What steps are critical for data warehousing success? DENVER—A well-managed data warehouse can dramatically improve an organization's decision-making capabilities, several experts said during a recent panel discussion. A data warehouse is one of the most effective ways for information technology to add value, said Kimberly Baker, vice president and general manager for data warehouse systems at NCR Corp. of Dayton, Ohio. But
What steps are critical for data warehousing success?
DENVERA well-managed data warehouse can dramatically improve an A data warehouse is one of the most effective ways for information technology to add Specialists at the Government Information Technology Executive Councils Data warehouse projects face a high hurdle to achieve success, said David Isaac, a While other projects can succeed just by getting the system to work, data Measures of success are less concrete with data warehouse projects, Isaac A data warehouse lets the organization manage data from multiple sources to answer John Price, chief of the Information Systems Branch at the National Institutes of Price said the NIH data warehouse provides information on budget and finance, travel, Before the data warehouse was implemented, it would often take weeks to get answers, Typically, the initial application of the data warehouse is for historical data, Baker An advanced data warehouse can do predictive modeling, Baker said. Price said the NIH warehouses success has spurred users to push for other Data must be managed properly before a data warehouse can provide a real return One critical step is to establish a framework for the data warehouse as part of the That all has to be laid out at the beginning, she said. The IRS last year created a data warehouse to help identify tax cheats, said James There were problems putting the IRS data into a usable format, he said. IRS needed The agency decided to use data sampling that let the agency design a fast system that |