Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and
--------------- Information Logistics

The provision of the right data with appropriate quality according to the needs of decision makers is crucial for successful operations of companies and administrations. In recent years, the traditional approach of information logistics - driven by technology enablers like data warehouses and analysis tools - has been widened to include managerial considerations (organizational aspects, economic justification, data quality management, etc.), process-centric business intelligence, and inter-organizational information logistics. Data warehousing, business intelligence and information logistics exploit synergies in information-intensive businesses. In addition to the management perspective (effective and efficient design and operations of data warehousing, business intelligence and information logistics), tool and information management innovations allow for enhanced decision speed, more efficient extracting, cleaning, and aggregating data from source systems, maintaining and analyzing larger data sets, and demand-oriented access to data. This minitrack will accept papers with a managerial, an economic, a methodological or a technical perspective on the above topics.

Papers will also be considered for publication in the Journal of Business Intelligence .

Topics and research areas include:
Emerging Trends in Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence / Information Logistics:
* Real-time warehousing and business intelligence
* Customer Relationship Management
* Mobile computing
* Federated architectures
* BI portals
* Pervasive BI

Business Intelligence Applications
* Collaborative BI
* Performance Management
* Data warehousing and the Web
* Supply Chain Management
* E-commerce
* Data mining
* Decision support systems
* Executive information systems
* Graphical information systems
* End user queries
* OLAP/ROLAP/MOLAP
* Analytical Applications

Data Warehousing Process
*Data extracting, cleaning, and transforming
* Meta-data management
* Integration of data warehousing with ERP
* Data storage architectures and solutions
* Data quality management

Managerial and Technical Issues
* Benefits and business value from warehousing
* Case studies
* Current practices
* Security and privacy
* Industry-specific warehouses
* The role in knowledge management
* Development methodologies
* The economics of data warehousing

Co-chairs:
Robert Winter (Primary Contact)
University of St.Gallen
Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8CH-9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Phone: +41-71-224-2190
Fax: +41-71-224-2189
Email: robert.winter@unisg.ch

Barbara H. Wixom
McIntire School of Commerce
The University of VirginiaCharlottesville
Rouss and Robertson Halls, VA 22903, USA
Phone: +1-434-924-8981
Fax: +1-434-924-7074
Email: bwixom@mindspring.com

Hugh J. Watson
Terry College of Business
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6256, USA
Phone: +1-706-542-3744
Email: hwatson@arches.uga.edu