Data Warehousing and Data Mining

<p>Databases today can range in size into the terabytes — more than 1000000000000 bytes of data. Within these masses of data lies hidden information of strategic importance. Innovative organizations worldwide are already using data mining to locate and appeal to higher-value customers to reconfigure their product offerings to increase sales and to minimize losses due to error or fraud.<p><p>Data mining is a process that uses a variety of data analysis tools to discover patterns and relationships in data that may be used to make valid predictions. THE DATA MINING PROCESS collecting exploring and selecting the right data are critically important. But data description alone cannot provide an action plan.<p>