Re-engineering Business Processes to Facilitate Data Mining

Business Process re-engineering and data mining are currently popular discussion topics in business and industrial environments. One main area for discussion is how organisations can be prepared to facilitate data mining technologies appropriately. Based on the two main phases on business process re-engineering, the data mining process and the involved expertise respectively, a synthesis of both disciplines based on the data warehousing philosophy is proposed. Furthermore, requirements are given - general as well as industry specific - which an enterprise has to provide to allow appropriate data mining, including domain independent real world scenarios.