Enterprise Reporting without a Data Warehouse. A Case Study

This teaching cases study describes the development and implementation of an enterprise reporting system in a major Australian law firm. The dominant view in professional practice is that business intelligence systems like the one reported in this case should be provided data by an enterprise data warehouse. The case is particularly interesting because the reporting system was not based on a data warehouse. The paper concludes with a set of points for discussion, intended for graduate students studying data warehousing and business intelligence.