Your Data Warehouse is Your Data Mining Platform.
Data mining is one of the hottest topics in data warehousing.
Virtually every IS organization believes that data mining is part of its future and that it is somehow linked to the investment the organization has already made in the data warehouse. But behind all of the excitement is a lot of confusion. In this month's column, I will define the main categories of data mining, and in my next column, I will show what transformations need to be done on your data warehouse data to make it ready for data mining. In the right situations, data mining can be extraordinarily valuable. There is no one data mining approach, but rather a set of techniques that often can be used in combination with each other to extract the most insight from your data.