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Improved Data Warehousing Lessons Learnt from the Systems Approach

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/12111" mdate="2011-06-20 00:00:00"> <author>Roelien Goede</author> <title>Improved Data Warehousing Lessons Learnt from the Systems Approach</title> <pages>652 - 661</pages> <year>2011</year> <volume>5</volume> <number>6</number> <journal>International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/12111</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/54</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Data warehousing success is not high enough. User dissatisfaction and failure to adhere to time frames and budgets are too common. Most traditional information systems practices are rooted in hard systems thinking. Today, the great systems thinkers are forgotten by information systems developers. A data warehouse is still a system and it is worth investigating whether systems thinkers such as Churchman can enhance our practices today. This paper investigates data warehouse development practices from a systems thinking perspective. An empirical investigation is done in order to understand the everyday practices of data warehousing professionals from a systems perspective. The paper presents a model for the application of Churchmans systems approach in data warehouse development.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 54, 2011</index> </article>