A firm would use data mining if it wanted to
A) store copies of crucial data in several different locations to protect against its loss during disasters such as earthquakes, floods, or terrorist attacks.
B) protect its data from unauthorized outsiders.
C) increase the rate at which information flows through a firm's intranet.
D) discover hidden relationships among the data it accumulates.

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The purpose of a data warehouse is to get data out. Data mining is looking for hidden patterns in a data warehouse. Data-mining software discovers previously unknown relationships among the data.

A Firm Would Use Data Mining If It Wanted to