SOUZA, A. C. G.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6851470076397751; SOUZA, Aídre da Cunha Guedes de.
Resumo:
The use of management information systems for decision support (EIS - Executive
Information System e DSS - Decision Support System) based on data repository of
kind Data Warehouse (DW), has been largely increased. Although, many of the
projects that use this technology hasn't reached the expected success. Some of them
not even could be finished in order to attend its requirements: to provide consolidated
and consistent corporate informations for strategic management. As a work that
involves large expenses in development, implementation and maintenance, the fail of
such a project results in great damage.
This work shows a general and detailed view of the computational environment for
strategic management, Data Warehousing, in a generic way, focusing what we
believe is the major critical point of success of this kind of project: the real
comprehension of its functionality as technology, and its interactions and
fundamental features of working, like the kind of processing and the temporality
of/in the data repository, the Data Warehouse. Academic and commercial
approaches are done, since, talking about a technology that has its habitat on the
market, much of the lots of practical information has been useful to the
comprehension of the news on this subject. The work also relates the emergence of
this new technology, as well as to its interactions with other related technologies; still
emphasizing many critical points of its understanding that we found during the
development of this project.