APPLICATION OF DATA WAREHOUSING AND MINING TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT DECISION MAKING Businesses and Industries have collected operational

data for years, and continu e to accumulate ever-larger amounts of data at ever-increasing rates as transact ion databases become more powerful, communication networks grow, and the flow of commerce expands. With the Manufacturing sector as my primary target, due to my previous research in Decision Support System for production, profit and Price analysis, I primaril y intend to further my research by employing data ware housing and mining techni ques to support and enhance decision support services, analysis and making. Having these research questions in mind: - What procedures can be employed or applied to enhancing decision support servi ces? - How beneficial and to what measure will data warehousing and mining technology benefit the decision support activity of the organization? - What future trends and effect will this technology have on business as well as the organization and industry? - Can the use of a centralized data house/store and advance extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases solve the problem of timely decisio n making, evaluation and presentation? - How reliable will the system result? - How can database data and information be ensured integrity? - How can data/information from several databases in different department and si tes/location be efficiently extracted and centralized? The research will specifically address issues on the above questions and also on Information gathering, data capturing, data verification and validation, data t ransformation/processing/storage, Rule Induction and data visualization, data re trieval and presentation, knowledge processing and decision analysis. Employing the Dimensional Modelling methodology, data extraction, selection, tra nsformation and loading ETL process, online analytical processing (OLAP) techniq ues, I intend to develop three different data design model and prototype. This d esigned prototype will critically be analyzed, tested and compared. The research will provide an efficient, reliable, consistent, better and advance strategies, timeliness in efficient economic data protesting, predictions and f orecasting for decision support. The System Data mining tools will ensure reliab le predictions of future trends and behaviors, allowing businesses to make proac tive, knowledge-driven decisions from the information in the data warehouse. I am sure that the success of my research/findings with all necessary support wi ll, no doubt, be beneficial to the body of knowledge, the University, the manufa cturing sector as well as other sectors.