Chapter 9 – Enabling the Organization-Decision Making Decision Making  Ø  Reasons for Growth of Decision Making Information System -          People need to analyze large amounts of information – Improvements in technology itself, innovations in communication,

Chapter 8 : Accessing Organizational Information - Data Warehouse History of Data Warehouse •          Data warehouses extend the transformation of data into information •          In the 1990’s executives became less concerned with the day-to-day business

Chapter 7 : Storing Organizational Information - Database Relational Database Fundamentals Database – maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions), people (employees), and places (warehouses) Database models include: Hierarchical database model –