Efficient communication in financial data warehousing projects - Insights from a multiple case study

Data warehouses play important roles in the IT landscape of the financial industry. Banks have to deal with complex communication issues in financial data warehouse projects. Especially the creation of extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) processes depends on the project team’s communication ability and given communication barriers. We briefly present a theoretical efficiency model based on philosophy of language and the conceptualization of information systems development projects as language communities. We test the model against three case studies to derive evidence for and confirm three propositions leading to suggestions for project management of financial data