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Accessing the data warehouse: designing tools to facilitate business understanding

Accessing the data warehouse: designing tools to facilitate business understanding LIAM FRIEDLAND design Accessing the Data Warehouse: Designing Tools to Facilitate Business Understanding D Designing a Tool for Data Access and Analysis Data Warehousing is a relatively new phenomenon in database management sys- tems. It gives business users the ability to quickly understand the trends, information, and market forces that are shaping their businesses. Finally, after years of amassing stored records and information in databases, techniques and tools are being developed to allow end users fast and easy data access and analysis. This article briefly introduces data warehousing and discusses the design issues involved in developing Discoverer, an end-user, data access tool developed for the Windows platform at Oracle Corporation. interactions...january + february The author is a Principle User Interface Designer at Oracle. 1 For additional information on Oracle ™s UI group see œA Conversation with Dan Rosenberg,  interactions, January/February 1997. A successful Data Warehousing strategy requires a powerful, fast, and easy way to access stored data. A survey of information technology management professionals (Data Warehouse Institute Report) found that 92 percent of respondents considered ease of use a critical feature of data access tools. This observation caused Discoverer ™s product manager to tag usability as a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png interactions Association for Computing Machinery

Accessing the data warehouse: designing tools to facilitate business understanding

interactions , Volume 5 (1) – Jan 12, 1998

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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 1998 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1072-5520
DOI
10.1145/268986.268990
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LIAM FRIEDLAND design Accessing the Data Warehouse: Designing Tools to Facilitate Business Understanding D Designing a Tool for Data Access and Analysis Data Warehousing is a relatively new phenomenon in database management sys- tems. It gives business users the ability to quickly understand the trends, information, and market forces that are shaping their businesses. Finally, after years of amassing stored records and information in databases, techniques and tools are being developed to allow end users fast and easy data access and analysis. This article briefly introduces data warehousing and discusses the design issues involved in developing Discoverer, an end-user, data access tool developed for the Windows platform at Oracle Corporation. interactions...january + february The author is a Principle User Interface Designer at Oracle. 1 For additional information on Oracle ™s UI group see œA Conversation with Dan Rosenberg,  interactions, January/February 1997. A successful Data Warehousing strategy requires a powerful, fast, and easy way to access stored data. A survey of information technology management professionals (Data Warehouse Institute Report) found that 92 percent of respondents considered ease of use a critical feature of data access tools. This observation caused Discoverer ™s product manager to tag usability as a

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Published: Jan 12, 1998

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