"If only HP knew what HP knows" is a well-known quote in the knowledgemanagement-domain. Insurance companies are using datawarehousing and business intelligence to rapport over their results and their expectations of the future. They already have the data, but how do you get the right information from a big set of data?

Working with big datasets brings a few challenges:

• Where do you find the necessary information?
• How can we trace back from our data to a point of origin?
• How do we make sure our data is trustworthy and consistent?
• Performance: How do we make sure queries give results within a reasonable amount of time?

For answers to these questions, come to the lecture!