To succeed in the context of a global and dynamic economic environment, the companies must use all the information they have, as efficiently as possible, in order to gain competitive advantages and to consolidate their position on the market. They have to respond quickly to the changes in the...

One of the challenges of the post-dot-com bubble era that many organizations are facing is being asked to deliver more with little or no budget increase in order to improve the bottom line. In addition, in the wake of the recent corporate accounting scandals, new regulations have been put into...

It is widely accepted that a data warehouse is the central place of a Business Intelligence system. It stores all data that is relevant for the company, data that is acquired both from internal and external sources. Such a repository stores data from more years than a transactional system can...