It may be reducing the time to degree or increasing student satisfactions. And the end result is they start developing strategic plans for improvements that probably wouldn't happen without a data warehouse. The idea that you make decisions based on the best available information is not unique to business. It should be a common way of administration and decision making throughout all organizations. And that is true for any organization that I know of.
Resources are always scarce.
The information in a data warehouse helps you answer those questions. And the Internet makes the information more available, more accessible than it has ever been before. No one will be untouched Because this is the age of e-commerce and technologies such as data warehousing and data mining are crucial to organizations' success, this year Baylor began a joint development with SAS to create a Data Mining and Knowledge Management Center within the Hankamer School of Business. This center will allow students and faculty to use SAS data mining solutions to explore data. The rapid growth and importance of data mining and data warehousing requires that all business students understand the fundamental technologies associated with this area of knowledge management.