This book comprehensively covers data warehouse design (using various approaches, models and indexing techniques), relational data base mining, data warehousing on the Web, and data replication. Several chapters discuss application development with popular OLAP tools.This definitive, up-to-the-minute reference provides strategic, theoretical and practical insight into three of the most promising information management technologies--data warehousing, online analytical processing , and data mining showing how these technologies can work together to create a new class of information delivery system: the Information Factory. Highlights the areas of data warehousing and business intelligence where high-impact technological progress has been made. Discussions on developments include data marts, real-time information delivery, data visualization, requirements gathering methods, multi-tier architecture, OLAP applications, Web click stream analysis, data warehouse appliances, and data mining techniques.