Data warehouse state of the art and future challenges

Abstract

The evolution of the computer world and the proliferation of storage devices has led to an explosion of available information, so that made their exploitation difficult. In addition, it has been found that a large part of this data will not be stored or used; however, it constitutes a precious raw material to understand the activity and anticipate its evolution., To cope with these problems, professionals implemented a decision making support systems (or decision support systems) and which allow a synthetic and multidimensional treatment of all available and stored information, hence the birth of the data warehouse and data mining techniques. This paper introduces the data warehousing, gives researchers terminologies necessary for understanding the process, and summarizes its evolution. It also presents an analysis of the latest research in the field, and explores the future trends. And therefore, this study provides a reference for researchers wishing to contribute in this area.