Adoption of Data Warehouse in University Management: Wasit University Case Study

Abstract

Presently, the utilization of traditional data instrument and technologies are incapable of managing the load and analytic process of data that can be translated into significant information for top management. It is observed prevalently that Information Technology is becoming an important source for the dissemination of knowledge by the Education in order to retain competitiveness in education systems and for adaptation purposes alongside the dynamic setting of the business. The study of the growth of higher education indicates that the Iraqi higher education has entered a rapid phase of progress. Thus, the optimization of universities is imperative under the circumstances. The main goal of the implementation of a data warehouse is in the conversion of the abundance of data into information that can be used in the improvement of admission, examination, examination results and other processes. In this paper, we highlighted the need of data warehousing for higher education and provided an approach to build the warehouse suitable to Waist University and may be to similar universities in Iraq.