Problem:
‘Users and Information system specialists need to spend inordinate amounts of time locating and gathering data' (Watson and Hal, 1998)
Recent developments in the area of Data Warehousing and its associated technologies claim to be able to improve information management in organisations.
Required:
(i) Describe the terms ‘Database' and ‘Data Warehouse'.
(ii) Show how the Data Warehousing approach to information management improves on the Data Base Management Systems (DBMS) approach.