INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE DATA FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN CONSTRUCTION ORGANISATIONS

Tanko Ishaya, James Chadband, Lucy Grierson

2007

Abstract

Information integration is one of the main problems to be addressed when designing a data warehouse for decision-making support. Possible inconsistencies and redundancies between data residing at the operational data sources needs to be resolved before migrating to a data warehouse, so that the data warehouse is able to provide an integrated and reconciled view of data within the organization. This paper presents a performance-oriented data warehouse as an integrated data for decision-making support within a construction organization. The process is based on a conceptual representation of the enterprise, which has been exploited both in the data integration phase of the warehouse information sources and during the decision-making activity from the information stored in the data warehouse. The application of the process has been supported by prototype software tools for data integration, reconciliation and analysis that provides some decision-making support.

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Ishaya T., Chadband J. and Grierson L. (2007). INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE DATA FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN CONSTRUCTION ORGANISATIONS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 534-539. DOI: 10.5220/0002376705340539


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Tanko Ishaya and James Chadband and Lucy Grierson},
title={INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE DATA FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN CONSTRUCTION ORGANISATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={534-539},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002376705340539},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE DATA FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN CONSTRUCTION ORGANISATIONS
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Ishaya T.
AU - Chadband J.
AU - Grierson L.
PY - 2007
SP - 534
EP - 539
DO - 10.5220/0002376705340539