Definition of decision-making needs, history
Role of the Decision-making Information System (SID) within the Information System
Study angles of the concept of decision-support system Decision-making
architecture based on a data warehouse

Presentation, evolution
Deployment models (Data Marts, Operational Data Store, Data Warehouse)
Metadata and flow management
Technical evolutions of RDBMS in the field of decision-making
Data Mining: presentation, tools
Decision-making portals
Construction of a Data Warehouse (approach, modeling, deployment)

Architecture of a SID and dictionaries (functional and technical)
Implementation of an adequate decision-making strategy
Panorama and typology of market offers:
– Back-office construction tools (RDBMS and Data Warehouse)
– Front-office rendering tools ( Reporting, Query, OLAP, Data mining)
– Analysis tools (server side / client side)

The components (actors, environment, decision-making criteria)
Technical study of the project and of what already exists
Organizational policies
Restitution tools and technical architectures
Modeling of tables: facts, dimensions, aggregates
Performance measurement