A Data Mining Application for Managing the Higher Education sector Case study

Abstract

In recent years, decision support systems otherwise called business Intelligence [BI] have become an integral part of organization's decision making strategy. Data warehousing and Data Mining are now playing a significant role in strategic decision making. It helps companies make better decisions, streamline work-flows, provide better customer services, and target market their products and services.. This work is all about developing data warehouse and data mining Methods for management using the University of M’sila Student database as a case study. It describes the process of data warehouse design and development data mining structures using Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. It also outlines the development of a data cube as well as application of Online Analytical processing (OLAP) tools and Data Mining tools in data analysis.