14.1. CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

• Appreciate the enormous information potential of the data warehouse

• Carefully note all the users who will use the data warehouse and devise a practical way to classify them

• Delve deeply into the types of information delivery mechanisms

• Match each class of user to the appropriate information delivery method

• Understand the overall information delivery framework and study the components

Let us assume that your data warehouse project team has successfully identified all the pertinent source systems. You have extracted and transformed the source data. You have the best data design for the data warehouse repository. You have applied the most effective data cleansing methods and gotten rid of most of the pollution from the source data. Using the most optimal methods, you have loaded the transformed and cleansed data into your data warehouse database. Now what?