Need for strategic information, Decision support system, Challenges in DM ,Operational versus Decision-Support Systems, Data Warehousing-the only solution, definitions of Data warehousing and data mining, features of Data warehouse, Data Marts, Metadata.

Trends in Data Warehousing: significant trends and growth.

Planning Data warehouse, project team, project management considerations, information packages & requirements gathering methods and Requirements definition: Scope and Content.

Architectural components: Objectives, Data Warehouse Architecture, Distinguishing Characteristics, Architectural Framework. Infrastructure: Operational & Physical.

Basics of data mining, related concepts, Data mining techniques, Data Mining Applications.

Data mining: Introduction, Learning, Neural Networks, Data mining using neural networks, Genetic algorithms.

Web Mining: Web mining, Text mining, Content mining, Web structure mining. Searching Techniques: Optimal, non-optimal, Min-max, H –I pruning.