Assignment 3: Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses

Assignment 3: Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses
Due Week 9 and worth 100 points
Businesses today are extremely reliant on large amounts of data for making intelligent business 
decisions. Likewise, the data warehouses are often structured in a manner that optimizes processing 
large amounts of data.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1. Outline the main differences between the structure of a relational database optimized for online 
transactions versus a data warehouse optimized for processing and summarizing large amounts 
of data.
2. Outline the main differences between database requirements for operational data and for 
decision support data.
3. Describe three (3) examples in which databases could be used to support decision making in a 
large organizational environment.
4. Describe three (3) examples in which data warehouses and data mining could be used to support 
data processing and trend analysis in large organizational environment.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites 
do not qualify as quality resources.