One area where Application Objects, Incorporated (AOI) consultants have been very active over the last several years is in the area of data warehousing.

For many organizations, data warehousing has become an important area for developing systems to meet the needs of the company in running the business.

The movement towards making data warehouses commodities within the enterprise has accelerated this area of application development. Companies such as Microstrategies, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, and many others have introduced products and services to facilitate this development effort.

Application Objects, Incorporated (AOI) has been involved in several large-scale data warehousing efforts with different customers, providing consultants to help with areas such as:

• Information analysis
• Data transformation
• Data warehouse design
• Customized application development
• Online analytical processing
• Data warehouse tool evaluation and selection