Q. How did companies attempt to create decision-support environments before the advent of data warehousing?

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Q. What is the purpose of data warehouses?

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Q. When was the Data Warehousing Institute founded?

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Q. Who is credited with being among the top authorities in the field of data warehousing and decision support systems?

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Q. What were some of the key challenges that organizations faced after implementing data warehousing?

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Q. Why did companies start to take a second look at providing decision support?

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Q. What is the twofold goal of decision-support systems?

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Q. What are the two environments that compose BI (Business Intelligence) for an enterprise?

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Q. What is the primary focus of the "Data to Information" environment in BI?

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Q. What is the primary focus of the "Information to Knowledge" environment in BI?

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Q. What is the relationship between the two complementary environments of data warehousing and analytics?

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Q. What is the primary motivation for companies to seek strategic information?

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Q. Why is every enterprise facing an information crisis?

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Q. What was the primary reason for the failures of past attempts by IT to provide strategic information?

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Q. Why are informational systems considered different from traditional operational systems?

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Q. What challenges led to the movement towards maturity in early data warehouse implementations?

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Q. What is the concept of business intelligence for an enterprise?

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