Hot topic in the industry--Web sites, intranets, and extranets are the new suppliers to data warehouses. Companies have found that the Web is a great source for data about consumers and business partners, and they are scrambling to hook their data warehouse to the Web. Oracle, Informix, and Sybase have rushed to rollout Web data warehouse packages. Best-selling author, Rob Mattison, explains the applications, architecture, and implementation issues of Web data warehousing. This book is about the tools that people use to find patterns within a database stored on the Internet which can be shared with suppliers, customers.