This definitive, up-to-the-minute reference provides strategic, theoretical and practical insight into three of the most promising information management technologies--data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data mining--showing how these technologies can work together to create a new class of information delivery system: the Information Factory. It comprehensively covers data warehouse design (using various approaches, models and indexing techniques), relational data base mining, data warehousing on the Web, and data replication. Several chapters discuss application development with popular OLAP tools.