Title :
Evaluating data warehouse toolkits
Author_Institution :
Application Building Blocks, USA
Abstract :
Historically, building a data warehouse has been a risky proposition. According to the Gartner Group and similar sources, the failure rate for data warehouse projects runs as high as 60 percent. The dilemma facing businesses today is this: although implementing an enterprise-wide database is risky, an organization that does so gains a significant business advantage over competitors who do not have data warehouse capability or who continue to rely on localized, group-specific data marts. The author discusses the evaluation of data warehouse toolkits and considers critical toolkit components
Keywords :
business data processing; programming environments; software development management; software tools; very large databases; Gartner Group; business; business advantage; data marts; data warehouse toolkit evaluation; enterprise-wide database; organization; project failure rate; Buildings; Calendars; Costs; Data mining; Data warehouses; Databases; Electrical equipment industry; Investments; Programming; Spirals;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
