The idea of building data warehouses as central data collections
made available for decision support applications in a
company is widely accepted. The concrete design and management
of a data warehouse from a technical as well as
from an organizational point of view, however, turns out to
be far from trivial but requires sophisticated and time consuming
efforts.
The DMDW workshop was held at the CAiSE’99 conference
in Heidelberg on June 14-15, 1999. It had the intention
to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss the
design and management of data warehouses. The various
presentations gave a broad view on the data warehouse life
cycle covering aspects relevant at design time, at build time
and at run time. Overall, DMDW’99 was recognized as a
success. The 30+ participants enjoyed the high quality program
(acceptance rate of 50 percent) and had vivid discussions.
In this report, we review the presentations given at the
DMDW workshop and present some open problems which
we believe should be addressed by future research and whose
solution could contribute to make data warehouse research
more relevant to the practice.