DSS News
D. J. Power, Editor
December 5, 2010 -- Vol. 11, No. 24
A Free Bi-Weekly Publication of DSSResources.COM
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In this issue:
1) What is a data warehouse?
2) DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
3) Recent DSS News Headlines
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1) What is a data warehouse?
by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
A data warehouse is a database designed to support decision making
in organizations. It stores historical operating data used for
reporting and for generating business intelligence. IBM researchers
Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy developed the "business data warehouse"
concept in the late 1980s. In 1990, Bill Inmon published his influential
book Building the Data Warehouse. A data warehouse is a data management
strategy organizations use to collect, store, and analyze large amounts
of historical business data. There are two major approaches to storing
data in a data warehouse — the dimensional approach and the normalized
approach. A hybrid or combination approach is sometimes used.
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2) DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
1. BI Congress II sponsored by AIS SIG DSS, St Louis, MO,
Dec. 11 and 12, 2010, join academic professionals
and industry representatives.
Check http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bicongress/
2. Call for papers: Journal of Decision Systems (JDS) special
issue on “Decision Making in Web 2.0 and Social Media
Environments”, due January 15, 2011.
Check http://dssresources.com/news/3111.php
3. Call for papers: ICDSS 2011 - International Conference on
DSS, June 6-7, 2011, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, due
February 1, 2011. Check http://dssresources.com/news/3154.php
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3) Recent DSS News Headlines
12/02/2010 Silverstar Casino implements MicroStrategy business
intelligence platform.
12/02/2010 Claraview awarded enterprise data warehouse contract
from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
12/01/2010 Five-year total cost of ownership: SAP Business ByDesign
vs. NetSuite.
12/01/2010 New reality of real time with launch of SAP®
high-performance analytic appliance.
11/29/2010 Kognitio, Segmetrix honored with Information Management
Magazine's 'Innovative Solution Award'.
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