Data Warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) have been there for a while, but years of evolution of these systems may have created more confusion and questions than what Hans Peter Luhn and Howard Dresner - considered to be the fathers of business intelligence - might have tried to answer.

Most of the BI projects are either never completed or fail - that is the bad news; the good news is that majority of these failures can be averted by defining a clear roadmap, selecting the right approach and encompassing them by a well defined scope. It is really not that difficult

Over the years, new buzzwords have sprung up in the data management field. Beyond data warehouse and business intelligence, now we have Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Integration, Operational Data Store (ODS), Data Mart, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Business Performance Management, Master Data Management, ETL - Extract, Transport and Load, Data Mining, Enterprise Reporting and many more! Are these just the catchphrases or do you really need them?

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