DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSE

DATA MINING AND WAREHOUSE


ABSTRACT


Data mining, the extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases,
is a powerful new technology with great potential to help companies focus on the most important information in their data warehouses.


Wide ranges of companies have deployed successful applications of data mining. Two critical factors for success with data mining are: a large, well-integrated data warehouse and a well-defined understanding of the business process within which data mining is to be applied.


Our major focus in this context is about the FBI plan to acquire and employ modern information technology to thwart future terrorist attacks. The FBI has selected "investigative data warehousing" as a key technology to use in the war against terrorism. The technique uses data mining and analytical software to comb vast amounts of digital information to discover patterns and relationships that indicate criminal activity.


There is a growing gap between more powerful storage and retrieval systems and the users’ ability to effectively analyze and act on the information they contain. A new technological leap is needed to structure and prioritize information for specific end-user problems. The data mining tools can make this leap.