International Business Machines Corporation

Centre De Recherche Industrielle Du Quebec

Gregory Dorval

Jean-Pierre Couturier

Michael Adendorff

Richard Gagnon

Tom Fazal

Anatoly Tulchinsky

Simon Palmer

Carm Janneteau

Simon Evans

A data warehouse solution system comprises a metadata model, a user interface and an engine. The metadata model has an information needs model including metadata regarding information needs for building reports by users, and a data information model including metadata describing data that is available for building reports. The user interface has a customer user interface for presenting the information needs model to the users for report generation, and a modeling user interface for presenting the data information model to the users for manipulating data warehouse objects. The engine has a report management service unit for providing report management service using the information needs model, and a data management service unit for providing data management service including generation of a data warehouse using the data information model.

Method of generating and maintaining a data warehouse

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Ottawa, Canada

Gregory Dorval