
14 Strategic Data Warehousing: Achieving Alignment with Business
1999). e data warehouse provides opportunities for performing data mining
tasks such as classification and clustering (Ester et al., 1998). e advantage of a
data warehouse in an organization is that it allows decision makers to analyze data
without interfering with the transaction processing system. In a data warehouse,
data is periodically replicated from operational databases and external providers
of data, and is conditioned, integrated, and transformed into a read-only data-
base to discern patterns of behavior, support DSS, and enable OLAP (Little and
Gibson ...