Monsanto's Bipin Junnarkar Data warehouses go mainstream The old vision of building a single, monolithic, dump-and-run style data warehouse just doesn't cut it in today's environment. Users are savvier and more demanding than ever. By Karen Watterson Nabisco's Dick Ordon AS/400 is a LifeSaver Thanks to new tools, data warehousing on the AS/400 is now less painful and more profitable, especially if you already run your business on it. By Lauren Gibbons Paul Dairyworld's David Lynn and Tim Nickason Is datamining ready for the masses? Forget the hokey headlines about "nuggets." Opening data warehouses to new users has real business value, but the process is neither easy nor well understood. By Deborah Asbrand Wal-Mart CIO Randy Mott Wal-Mart's IT secret: Extreme integration It's no longer good enough to link just your internal systems. Today, you've got to integrate from one end of your business chain to the other -- from your suppliers through to your customers. By Charles B. Darling & J. William Semich How to integrate your data warehouse Data warehousing is tricky enough without worries over products that don't cooperate. By Charles B. Darling				Warehouse construction components Data extract Data cleaning Data load Warehouse operation components Data storage Warehouse management Warehouse access components Information catalog Managed report and query environments Relational & Multidimensional analysis Data mining Data visualization EIS Alphabetical list -- all vendors Please fill out this short anonymous survey and help us make this Data Warehousing resource better. Thanks Birth of a terabyte data warehouse Only a company that can "master the possibilities" could construct a terabyte database in just 150 days and talk about a payoff before the first dime rolls in. By Eva Freeman Does your datamart vendor care about your architecture? Your enterprise is hungry for the benefits of a datamart, but beware: Your datamart vendor might be trying to sell you a seven-course meal of Hershey bars. By W.H. Inmon

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