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CIS 429—Chapter 8 Accessing Organizational Information—Data Warehouse. Accessing Organizational Information. Applebee’s $3.2 billion annual sales 1500 restaurants in 49 states and 7 countries Sales data stored in a data warehouse Decisions made include
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CIS 429—Chapter 8Accessing Organizational Information—Data Warehouse
Accessing Organizational Information • Applebee’s • $3.2 billion annual sales • 1500 restaurants in 49 states and 7 countries • Sales data stored in a data warehouse • Decisions made include • Labor budgets based on number of guests • Promotional sale item analysis • Costs of food and use of ingredients
History of Data Warehousing • Operational systems of the 1990s • Accounting, order entry, customer service, sales • Such systems not appropriate for business analysis • Incomplete • Not integrated • Not ___________ • Poor quality • Not designed for ___________
Data Warehouse Fundamentals • Introduction • Data warehouse • A logical collection of aggregated information that supports business analysis and decision-making • Data warehouses compiled using ETL • Extraction • _________________ • Loading • Data mart • A _________ of data warehouse information
Data Warehouse Fundamentals (2) • Multidimensional Analysis and Data Mining • A data warehouse is a multidimensional database or a ________ • Querying a data warehouse can be faster than querying a relational database • Data mining • Extracting more complex information from a data warehouse • Data-mining tools find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information • Statistical tools • ___________ agents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent)
Data Warehouse Fundamentals (3) • Information Cleansing or Scrubbing • Low-quality information costs U.S. businesses _______ billion annually • Information cleansing and scrubbing finds and fixes low-quality information • Specialized software is designed to perform these operations
Business Intelligence • BI is information used to support ______________ • New technologies lead to increased amounts of information • Enabling BI • Technology • Hardware and software more available • People • Quality people in key positions to perform analysis • __________ • Executives who encourage the wise use of technology