• DocumentCode
    1525396
  • Title

    Evaluating data warehouse toolkits

  • Author

    Oates, Joe

  • Author_Institution
    Application Building Blocks, USA
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1998
  • Firstpage
    52
  • Lastpage
    54
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/52.646882
  • Filename
    646882