Effective data warehouse for information delivery: A literature survey and classification

Data warehouse is playing an important role in strategic decision making process for complex business solutions. To gain competitive advantage, business executives are increasingly making use of data warehouse concepts as it plays a vital role in analysing, predicting future trends based on past and current scenarios. We as authors have surveyed the various techniques used in building of data warehouse and the methods used for the implementation of techniques. We have conducted an in-depth survey of existing literature from various known international journal papers to come up with a framework which will help the researchers to focus on specific and emerging areas in the field of data warehouse development as well as application of data warehouse in various business domains. Copyright © 2013 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.