Approaches to the Development of Multi-Dimensional Databases: Lessons from Four Case Studies

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 10-23

  Hasan, Helen ^a   Hyland, Peter ^a   Dodds, David ^a   Veeraraghavan, Raja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study; Executive information systems; Management; Methodology; Multi dimensional database; OLAP; Organization; Relational database

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544508378     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/381823.381833     Document Type: Article

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