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Preface
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
One of the motivations for writing this book was to give today’s IT and business
managers a perspective of the data warehouse as a corporate asset that can be put to
strategic uses. e role of CIOs has changed from just managing the IT infrastruc-
ture to being active partners in the management of the business of the company.
Because most IT managers possess a technical background and are not skilled in
business strategies, this book is written to facilitate their looking at and using the
data warehouse from a new perspective. It will help them in