This document discusses data warehousing, knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), and data mining. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented collection of integrated and non-volatile data used to support management decision making. Data mining is extracting knowledge from large amounts of data and has two main uses: making sense of too much data with too little information and extracting useful information from data to interpret it. The document also discusses applications of data mining in areas like banking, marketing, risk management, and customer acquisition/retention.