Web Warehousing and Knowledge Management

"A web warehouse can best be defined as some combination of data warehouse technology and World Wide Web technology that leverages the strengths that each discipline has to offer."

"What defines a company and its success is how well it functions in disseminating and managing knowledge."

"Making a new invention practical involves the development of a series of related visions, perspectives, or models which explain how you can take the basic functionality that the invention delivers and harness it for practical applications."

"The area of computer systems software design would seem to be one important place for implementation of knowledge management-based perspective of computer systems."

"By establishing a policy of requiring that value propositions be associated with all Web warehousing activities, management can quickly and effectively make decisions about which applications to accept and which to avoid."

"The biggest single problem that people run into when they try to do data warehousing is that of trying to find the data that they want to put into the warehouse in the first place."

"The single key to any warehousing effort, whether it is data warehousing or Web warehousing, is business value, pure and simple."

"No matter what the size, shape, purpose or flavor of a data warehouse, or data mart, there are three functional functions which it must always support: acquisition, storage, and access."

"The physical and operational infrastructures of the warehouse are meaningless in and of themselves. The real "guts"?the value delivery component?is what we call the applications layer. "

"The value that a query or reporting tool delivers to the business is directly related to the savings in operational costs that the delivery of the information to the user makes possible."

"OLAP products allow you to build and submit queries to ask for specific kinds of information, and they provide you with a way to format the output and organize it in a way that makes it easy to use."

"There are actually four major categories of information delivery that can be readily associated with real business value."

"Organizations have found many ways to display data graphically to their advantage."

"A text information management system is any combination of people, processes, software, hardware, and textual material that has been logically organized to provide a specific set of text management capabilities."

"The real value of the search engine comes not from the user interfaces or even the search templates, but from the search capability that is built into the product."

"The process of text mining is executed in much the same way that data mining is."

"What differences would there be between a text information system and a multimedia system? The biggest single difference is in the way the system identifies, catalogs, and makes the multimedia objects available to the user for search."

"The PPP approach, in general, dictates that we change the way that we do things in order to get the job done."

"One of the most frequently developed Web warehousing configurations is the secure intranet layout."

"In capacity planning, the Web warehouse architect is provided with only the sketchiest amount of information about the kinds of workloads the end users will be placing on the system and the kinds of work the systems will be expected to do."