ACQUIRING AND INTEGRATING EXTERNAL DATA INTO DATA WAREHOUSES - Are You Familiar With the Most Common Process?

Mattias Strand, Benkt Wangler, Carl-Fredrik Lauren

2004

Abstract

Data warehouses (DWs) has become one of the major IT-investments during the last decades and in order to fully exploit the potential of data warehouses, more and more organizations are acquiring and integrating external data into their star-schemas. However, the literature covering external data acquisition and integration is limited. Therefore, in this paper the results of an interview study conducted among banking organizations are presented. The study aimed at identifying different approaches for acquiring and integrating external data into DWs. The results show that there are many different approaches for the acquisition and integration, depending on the purpose and structure of the data being acquired. In addition, the most common external data acquisition and integration process is presented and discussed.

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Strand M., Wangler B. and Lauren C. (2004). ACQUIRING AND INTEGRATING EXTERNAL DATA INTO DATA WAREHOUSES - Are You Familiar With the Most Common Process? . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 508-513. DOI: 10.5220/0002601905080513


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Mattias Strand and Benkt Wangler and Carl-Fredrik Lauren},
title={ACQUIRING AND INTEGRATING EXTERNAL DATA INTO DATA WAREHOUSES - Are You Familiar With the Most Common Process?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={508-513},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002601905080513},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - ACQUIRING AND INTEGRATING EXTERNAL DATA INTO DATA WAREHOUSES - Are You Familiar With the Most Common Process?
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Strand M.
AU - Wangler B.
AU - Lauren C.
PY - 2004
SP - 508
EP - 513
DO - 10.5220/0002601905080513