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Accessing the data warehouse: designing tools to facilitate business understanding

Data Warehousing is a relatively new phenomenon in database management systems. It gives business users the ability to quickly understand the trends, information, and market forces that are shaping their businesses. Finally, after years of amassing stored records and information in databases, techniques and tools are being developed to allow end users fast and easy data access and analysis. This article briefly introduces data warehousing and discusses the design issues involved in developing Discoverer, an end-user, data access tool developed for the Windows platform at Oracle Corporation.