  Providing a customized support for the OLAP brings tremendous challenges to
the OLAP technology. Standing at the crossroads of the preferences and the data
warehouse, two emerging trends are pointed out; namely: (i) the personalization
and (ii) the recommendation. Although the panoply of the proposed approaches,
the user-centric data warehouse community issues have not been addressed yet.
In this paper we draw an overview of several user centric data warehouse
proposals. We also discuss the two promising concepts in this issue, namely,
the personalization and the recommendation of the data warehouses. We compare
the current approaches among each others with respect to some criteria.
