A National Data Warehouse Project for French Universities

The French national Agence de Modernisation des Universites, (AMUE), is the Information Technology Consortium which has as members most of the French Universities, (about one hundred and ten). AMUE provides large management software applications to its members, i.e. student, financial and personnel systems; all of them designed with Oracle client/server technology. AMUE also acts as a consultant for its members in the fields of information technology, university management, and professional development. The Data Warehouse project is one aspect of the management improvement process conducted by AMUE.