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Data warehouses have been developed to answer the increasing demands of quality information required by the top managers and economic analysts of organizations. Their im-portance in now a day business area is unanimous recognized, being the foundation for de-veloping business intelligence systems. Data warehouses offer support for decision-making process, allowing complex analyses which cannot be properly achieved from operational sys-tems. This paper presents the ways in which a data warehouse may be developed and the stages of building it