Data Warehouse para una empresa de transporte turístico.

Data Warehouse arises as an attempt to provide managers with all the information they need via a unique tool containing the required data coming from different sources. This tool favours data comprehension and its transformation into useful information that could support strategic decision taking and better knowledge management, in this article, the point of departure is the importance of transportation for tourism development. Touristic transportation should be characterized by its excellence and comfort. To achieve this, company managers should take strategic decisions that become more and more complex in a short period of time. To help taking these decisions a data warehouse which provides fast and efficient answers to managers' questions is suggested. An application of this data warehouse together with two of its three processes (extracting and transforming) implemented so far is also explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]