Data Warehousing brings order out of chaos

Before 2001 retail data at Sears, Roebuck and Co. a leading US retailer of apparel, home and automotive products and services, was kept in application-specific data marts where it supported sales and inventory reporting. The data was not integrated with the company's customer data warehouse which supported consumer analytics. As a result the reporting situation was ineffective with 3,500 or so weekly reports called up over the weekend taking too long to reach decision makers. The situation provi...

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10.5.1 Test, evaluate & maintain software & hardware
10.2.1 Establish info/knowledge management systems
1.1.6 Analyse customer data