Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

Angelyn B. Dela Cruz

Noriel V. Caban

1.0 Related Works

[1] A Data Warehouse is an integral part of those enterprises which want to have a clear business insights
from customer and operational data. It includes collection of technologies aimed at enabling the
knowledge worker (executive, manager, analyst) to make better and faster decisions. It is expected to
present the right information in the right place at the right time with the right cost in order to support the
right decision. Over the years, the practice of Data warehousing proved that the traditional online
Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems are not fully appropriate for decision support. From the survey
and evaluation of the literature related to Data Warehouse and with consultation and feedback of the data
warehouse practitioners working in renowned IT giants, it has been observed that the fundamental
problems arise in populating a warehouse with quality data. This paper mainly focuses on the study of the
issues that hinder the data quality and performance of the Data warehouse and some of the means that
may be opted to realize a better performance with respect to accuracy and quality to meet the challenging
and dynamic needs of the corporate world. [2] In a cloud-based data warehouse (DW), business users can
access and query data from multiple sources and geographically distributed places. Business analysts and
decision makers are counting on DWs especially for data analysis and reporting. Temporal and spatial
data are two factors that affect seriously decision-making and marketing strategies and many applications
require modelling and special treatment of these kinds of data since they cannot be treated efficiently
within a conventional multidimensional database. One main application domain of spatiotemporal data
warehousing is telecommunication industry, which is rapidly dominated by massive volume of data. [3]
Many businesses and services are taking into account the result of Business Intelligence. When it comes
to actual meaningful analyzation, it is the specified Business Intelligence Architecture, which observes
clear principals of extracting, transforming, loading, storing and presenting data in front of the user/client.
Of course, in this architecture a key position is defined for the Data Warehousing. The role of qualified
collecting data is not only related to the store space, speed of transaction and consistency of the data, but
also to the ability of the data storage to transform and administrate raw data from different sources. [4]
The market of global business intelligence technologies reached EUR 18.3 billion in 2017 and is expected
to reach EUR 22.8 billion in the near future, as such technologies provide companies with a number of
benefits: new information for business decision-making, real-time financial reporting and manual work
automation. Nevertheless, many companies around the world do not achieve the desired results of
applying business intelligence and data warehousing technologies. The research has found that the
companies examined in the case study have introduced business intelligence along with data
warehousing; however, there are differences in applying the business intelligence and the level of its
advancement. Overall, a business intelligence system makes core and support operations and processes
faster, as well as reduces costs and requires less human resources. [5] Data warehouse is subject Oriented,
included, Time Variant and nonvolatile collection of data. This data helps in supporting decision making
process by analyst in an organization. The Business intelligence is the delivery of accurate, useful
information to the appropriate decision makers with necessary timeframe to support effective decision-
making. [6] Business Intelligence (BI) provides historical, current and predictive views of business
operations with the help of some technologies, that include reporting, online analytical processing,
analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management,
benchmarking, text mining, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics. As analytics plays a major role
in BI, OLAP is an integrated part of BI in modern day business application. Data warehouse is the most
popular way to design and build OLAP. Data warehouse along with ETL and reporting tools provides an
integrated environment for business processing. Business processing also demands decision making
system and knowledge representation. Moreover, the data sources are physically distributed in different
locations. Hence modern day business environment is a complex architecture with a numbers of entities.
[7] Data warehouses are designed for various industry in order to analysis their data and growth. It has
been extensively used for storing the data and gaining knowledge. This have focused on various benefits
that could be brought to fruition by designing data warehouse. Further this work has been extended to
analyze multiple cases of the organizations like GPCL, ICICI prudential life insurance, Singapore Land
Transport etc. to understand the real benefits gained after successful implementation of data warehouse by
them. [8] The healthcare industry is following the lead of other industries and finding value in enterprise
data warehousing (EDW) and business intelligence (BI) tools. Healthcare organizations are leveraging
these tools to provide a plethora of benefits realized through enhanced business operations and
performance. The EDW combines data from multiple source systems across an enterprise, and BI tools
extract the data in meaningful ways to enable managers to make the best informed decisions. As with all
management information systems, there are technical issues to be considered that impact the design,
build, implementation, and support of the system. These benefits and challenges are explored, as well as
special considerations necessary for the healthcare industry compared to other industries utilizing data
warehousing and business intelligence. [9] Big data technologies came up with promises of handling and
faster-processing of hundreds of terabytes of data with parallel processing capability and at a low cost.
This provides an overview of big data technologies, best practices from the standpoint of BI applications.
This propose that conventional data warehousing and big data approaches can co-exist to provide
enterprise business intelligence (BI) community with maximum business information capabilities. This
elaborate how existing users of conventional data warehouses and enterprise business intelligence can be
benefited out of big data technologies. This highlight how business intelligence could be leveraged with
the help of emerging big data technologies. [10] Business Intelligence (BI) is the process to extract
information from data then get knowledge from that information to take the decisions. This shows the
effectiveness of BI technologies with data warehouse, for decision making. This deploy the Integrated
Proposed Architecture (IPA) on W category hospital in order to manage and monitor the data effectively
for analysis and decision making. The accuracy of IPA is 93% in term of information analysis that is 6%
better than Traditional Data warehouse Architecture (TDA). The IPA is also able to support dashboard
management, multidimensional data model, perform online analytical processing, perform user
authentication and generate dynamic reports via BI technologies.

warehouses for decision-making. The Integrated Proposed Architecture (IPA) was deployed in a W
category hospital to manage and monitor data efficiently for analysis and decision-making. IPA boasts a
93% accuracy in information analysis, surpassing the Traditional Data Warehouse Architecture (TDA) by
6%. Additionally, IPA supports dashboard management, multidimensional data models, online analytical
processing, user authentication, and dynamic report generation through BI technologies.

2.0 Selected Published Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Articles

Author (Year of Publication & Content Extracted Data Input
Provider)

Nikhil, D., Gautam, N., & Hillol, D. (2020). Data Quality Customer and
operational data

G. Garani, A. Chernov, I. Savvas and M. Information sourced from Information provided

Butakova. (2019) various locations for by business users for
analysis. querying and analysis.

Naneva, V., & Stefanova, K. (2022, Information gathered from Data provided for the
September) various sources for Business purpose of Business
Intelligence analysis. Intelligence analysis
within the specified

Birznieks, J., & Licite-Kurbe, L. (2021, Information gathered about
May) the global business
intelligence technology
market and its growth.
Gupta, V., & Singh, J. (2018) Data provided by companies
for implementing and
assessing the effectiveness
of business intelligence and
data warehousing
technologies.
Ghosh, R., Haider, S., & Sen, S. (2019, Business Intelligence
February). includes various
technologies like reporting,
analytics, and data mining.
Sharma, S., & Jain, R. (2020) Data warehouses benefit
various industries for data
analysis and growth.
Chen, E. T. (2019) Healthcare uses EDW and
BI for better operations.
Rahman, N. (2018). Big data technologies
promise cost-effective data
processing for enhanced
business intelligence.
architecture.
Data provided by
companies for
implementing and
assessing the
effectiveness of
business intelligence
and data warehousing
technologies.
Data utilized by
analysts within an
organization for
decision-making
processes through
business intelligence.
Diverse data sources
are integrated within a
complex architecture
to support decision-
making in modern
business environments.
Multiple organizations,
like GPCL, ICICI
Prudential Life
Insurance, and
Singapore Land
Transport, provided
data to evaluate the
advantages of data
warehouse
implementation.
Integrating data from
various sources for
informed decision-
making, with specific
healthcare industry
considerations.
Integration of
conventional data
warehousing and big
data approaches to
maximize business
intelligence
capabilities, benefiting
existing users and
 leveraging emerging
big data technologies.

Hassan, C. A. U., Irfan, R., & Shah, M. A. BI extracts knowledge from Supports dashboard
(2018, September). data for decision-making, management, data
especially with data modeling, online
warehouses. analysis, user
authentication, and
dynamic reporting
through BI.

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