Abstract
The movement to real-time is the latest development in business intelligence and data warehousing. In general terms, a data warehouse costs in excess of one million dollars and it is estimated that approximately 67% of the efforts fail. This is a significant factor when data warehouses are being developed for small businesses. Organizations are compelled to use their own data to produce reports that may indicate or better estimate tendencies in the market. This study examines six small businesses to determine best practices for creating data warehouses. Companies included in this analysis are in the fields of health care, manufacturing, education, and financial institutions. In this study, IT professionals and management were interviewed to determine which practices were highly valued in the development of data warehouses. In this paper, best practices for successful use of data warehouses are analyzed by examining six companies to determine the design, development and implementation.
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