Part 1 of Essay
Data warehouse is the center of the architecture for information systems in the 1990s. Data warehouse supports informational processing by providing a solid platform of integrated, historical data from which to do analysis. Data warehouse provides the facility for integration in a world of unintegrated application systems. ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... and then pick your battles wisely. I recommend that you read Marc Demarest's The Politics of Data Warehousing in conjunction with this paper. In his June 1997 paper, Marc comments on how little extended discussion of politics there is in the data warehousing literature. As of the writing of this paper, to the best of my knowledge, that situation still has not changed. This in unfortunate because ambitious data warehousing projects are rife with political issues. My working definition of a data warehousing ....