Organizing Data Warehouse Service Providers
Journal
Business Intelligence Journal
ISSN
1547-2825
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2009-09-01
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
Companies create organizational units to build, maintain, and operate data warehouses. These data warehouse service providers differ in how they are placed in the organization's structure, the services they perform, and how they collaborate with business units and internal and external IT service providers.A study conducted to better understand current practices identified four distinct approaches-full service providers, business service providers, data warehouse platform providers, and data warehouse competency centers-that differ in their performance of specific data warehousing tasks and services. To better understand the differences, four exemplar case studies were also conducted. This article discusses the pros and cons of the different approaches. The findings provide useful insights into how companies should organize data warehouse service providers.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Proquest
Publisher place
Seattle, Wash.
Volume
14
Number
3
Start page
31
End page
39
Pages
9
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
213516