Data Warehousing, Data Mining, & Olap

Improving data delivery is a top priority in business computing today. This comprehensive, cuttin-edge guide can help by showing you how to effectively integrate data mining and other powerful data warehousing techonologies. You´ll learn how to: Use data warehousing to establish a competitive advantage. Solve business problems faster by exploiting online analytical processing (OLAP) Evaluate various data warehousing solutions. Leverage your data warehousing utility via the Internet, client/sever computing, and various data mining tools In addition to providing a detailed overview and strategic analysis of the available data warehousing technologies, the book serves as a practical guide to data warehouse database design, star and snowflake schema approaches, multidimensional and multirelational models, advanced endexing techniques, and data mining. You´ll also learn how to compare different data mine technologies and products, and understand how they fit into your overall business and data processes. Intended for IS professionals as well as strategic planners, this fascinating book can be well relied upon as the essential reference to the standars, tools, technologies and possibilities of data warehousing today.