Does data warehouse end-user metadata add value?

Abstract

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An empirical investigation of factors influencing the adoption of data mining tools

“…This type of system functions as a specially prepared repository of data created to support decision-making (Hartono, Santhanam, & Holsapple, 2007). Because DMT and DW have a similar characteristic, decision-support, this study reviews previous research related to the adoption of DW (Foshay, Mukherjee, & Taylor, 2007;Goeke & Faley, 2007;Gorla, 2003). Though these theoretical models are based on the TAM, they do not include social influence.…”

An ETL Metadata Model for Data Warehousing

“…They assert that this particular aspect of metadata has seen rather little interest from product developers and is only beginning to be discussed in the research community. Shankaranarayanan & Even [30] and Foshay et al [11] provide a good description of business metadata and associated data quality. They argue that managerial decision-making stands to benefit from business metadata.…”

“…It enables tracing the historical information of batch loads. Metadata ensures that data content possesses sufficient quality for users to use it for a specific purpose [6,11].…”

“…It captures information about data warehouse data that is useful to business users and back-end support personnel. Metadata helps data warehouse end users to understand the various types of information resources available from a data warehouse environment [11]. Metadata enables decision makers to measure data quality [30].…”

“…Metadata enables decision makers to measure data quality [30]. The empirical evidence from the study suggests that end-user metadata quality has a positive impact on end-user attitude about data warehouse data quality [11]. Metadata is important not only from end user perspective standpoint, but also from the standpoint of data acquisition, transformation, load and the analysis of warehouse data [38].…”