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Strategic Alignment
e data warehouse has emerged as a powerful tool in delivering information to
users, creating competitive advantage, and building support for decision making
and customer satisfaction. Data warehouses have unique features that make them
different from other decision-support applications. Data warehouses also differ from
traditional operational systems. e data warehouse implementation process has an
enterprise-wide impact on the infrastructure of the organization. Factors that affect
data warehouse implementation applying IT implementation knowledge have been
investigated and various success factors for data warehouse ...