If they are not taken into account, people in various departments can feel as though they are not important in the scheme of the organization because they have been upstaged by technology. However, technology has to come into play where organizations are concerned because the world is changing and becoming more global. That means that there are a lot more people buying from companies all over the world and that makes a lot more data that has to be warehoused, especially for the largest of companies. These companies know that they have to find...

Sometimes these things can collide, but this can often be diffused if the company is aware of the issues that it must face and is careful to take everything into account. This needs to be done, because it is clear that there is no realistic way to separate the technical and the political aspects of data warehousing, nor does a company want to, because division within a company is very unhealthy.