Extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) is a process that

extracts information from internal and external databases,

transforms information using a common set of enterprise definitions
and loads information into a data warehouse.
Data warehouse a logical collection of information gathered from
many different databases that supports business analysis activities
and decision making tasks.
Main purpose to aggregate information throughout an organization
into a single repository for decision making purposes.
Data mart contains a subset of data warehouse information
Main purpose to have focussed information subsets particular to
the needs of a given business unit
Business intelligence information that people use to support their
decision making efforts
Business intelligence has become an art of shifting through large
amount of datas, extracting information and turning the information
into actionable knowledge.
Business intelligence enables business users to receive data for
analysis that is :
-reliable, understandable, consistent and easily manipulated.
Dimension a particular attribute of information
Cube a common term for the representation of multidimensional
information
Data mining the process of analyzing data to extract information
not offered by raw data alone
Information cleansing or scrubbing the process that weeds out and
fixes or discards incorrect, inconsistent or incomplete information.