Knowledge Warehouse Framework

Abstract - Decision Support Systems (DSS) helps the management in making accurate and timely decisions for successful business operations. Data Warehouse (DW) is one of the solutions for decision-making process in a business organization. But it only store data for managerial purpose and has no intelligent mechanism for decision making. This raises the issue of knowledge storage in organization for high capability decision support. Problem also arises during accessing of knowledge from different sources and comprehensively integration of knowledge. So a new generation knowledge enabled system is needed to store the knowledge along with data and information. A framework of knowledge warehouse is introduced, which is enhanced form of data warehouse to provide a platform/ infrastructure to capture, refine and store consistent and adequate knowledge along with data to improve decision making in an organization. A common storage format based on objects is also proposed to store the knowledge. The proposed architecture of knowledge warehouse would be new direction towards the decision support system for executive managers based on knowledge