Minitrack Introduction

Since its establishment in the late 1980s, data warehousing and business intelligence have become an integral part of business information management in most organizations. Data warehousing and business intelligence speed up decision processes and provide timely, accurate, integrated information for tactical decision making. In contrast to computer science where performance and architectural issues dominate, the information systems discipline focuses on the organizational and economical aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence. The data warehousing process is comprised of sub-processes which are development oriented, operations oriented or use oriented. Due to the business-to-IT character of these processes, the information systems perspective on data warehousing and business intelligence combines contributions from management and from computer science.