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Real-time data warehouses are common in some organizations. This article reviews the basic concepts of a real-time data warehouse
and it will help you determine if your organization needs this type of IT solution. (...)
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Real-time data warehouses are common in some organizations. This article reviews the basic concepts of a real-time data warehouse
and it will help...
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2009-12-23
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Legacy data can be lethal to your expensive new application – two case studies and some practical recommendations. (...)
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Legacy data can be lethal to your expensive new application – two case studies and some practical recommendations.
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2002-08-23
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There is a great deal of confusion over the meaning of data warehousing. Simply defined, a data warehouse is a place for
data, whereas data warehousing describes the process of defining, populating, and using a data warehouse. Creating, populating,
and querying a data warehouse typically carries an ext (...)
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... Data Acquisition: This is the process of moving company data from the
source systems into the warehouse. It is often the most time ...
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2002-08-18
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An explanation of the origins of data warehousing and why it is a crucial technology that allows businesses to gain competitive
advantage. Issues regarding technology selection and access to historical 'legacy' data are also discussed. (...)
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... came the creation of Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) tools, which made use of the metadata to get the information
from the source systems into the data warehouse. ...
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2000-08-02
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SAS Institute has announced the production availability of SAS/Warehouse Administrator software, Version 2.0. This new version
provides IT the ability to proactively publish data warehouse information and track its usage, plus aggressively manage the
process of change in the data warehouse. (...)
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... at the Data Warehousing Institute conference in Anaheim, Calif., this new version provides
IT the ability to proactively publish data warehouse information and ...
Published:
2000-03-13
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Getting ERP transaction data into a summarized form that is useful to knowledge workers is one way to extend the value of
your ERP system. This article discusses the advantages that can be gained by moving ERP and other transaction data to a data
warehouse. (...)
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Getting ERP transaction data into a summarized form that is useful to knowledge workers is one way to extend the value of
your ERP system. This a...
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2003-10-31
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Every Angle is a BI solution that can deliver SAP data analysis with ease. Hundreds—even thousands—of transactions could represent
a great challenge when trying to analyze data and obtain results. Every Angle is a tool that can deliver SAP data analysis
from every angle. (...)
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... 9, 2010. Comments: 0. Read Comments One of the biggest challenges when working with any enterprise resource
planning (ERP) system is trying to analyze data. ...
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2010-02-09
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Microsoft announced that they are running 20 critical internal systems, including their worldwide sales data warehouse, on
SQL Server 2000. In the vendor world, this is referred to as “eating your own dog food”. As is the case with all software
vendors lately, Microsoft is pushing e-commerce on the (...)
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Microsoft announced that they are running 20 critical internal systems, including their worldwide sales data
warehouse, on SQL Server 2000. In th... ...
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2000-05-12
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A big topic in business intelligence (BI) is the importance of “data quality”–cleaning data so that errors and inconsistencies
are eliminated as much as possible. But what many users don’t realize is that this is just a part of a larger problem: How
do you get the most out of business-relevant da (...)
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Getting Good Data Out of Your BI Systems. ...
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2010-10-04
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According to an announcement by International Business Machines on Thursday December 16, 1999, IBM is working with German
telecommunications services company Deutsche Telekom to assemble the largest data warehouse in the world. When complete, the
warehouse will contain up to 100 terabytes of customer and (...)
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According to an announcement by International Business Machines on Thursday December 16, 1999, IBM is working with German
telecommunications servi...
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1999-12-15
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... to handling and storing data: while they still extract data from the
source systems, they avoid the use of a traditional data warehouse structure,
favoring ...
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2010-07-06
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There is a perception that if business users are given access to enterprise databases and raw query tools, they will create
havoc in the system, which is a possibility—unless the business intelligence (BI) product developer understands the potential
problem and addresses it as a business-critical facto (...)
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There is a perception that if business users are given access to enterprise databases and raw query tools, they will create
havoc in the system, w...
Published:
2005-07-15
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Supply chain analytics is gaining popularity with organizations, as it is an effective mechanism to monitor and track supply
chain performance. And with new technological innovations promising to enhance these tools, businesses can look forward to
benefiting more fully from this area of supply chain mana (...)
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Supply chain analytics is gaining popularity with organizations, as it is an effective mechanism to monitor and track supply
chain performance. An...
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2008-05-07
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This BI article looks at why and how in-memory technology transforms analytic applications. The primary bottleneck to high-performance
multidimensional analysis has been slow hard drive speed—the time it takes for data to be transferred from disk storage to
random access memory (RAM). With crashing RAM (...)
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... in distributed systems), and event-stream processing systems (applications
that ... making the minimization—even elimination—of the data warehouse
a possibility ...
Published:
2010-09-01
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Agresso's information warehouse, business process, and reporting and analytics information delivery models are inextricably
linked in a virtual cycle. A change in any of these core competencies automatically informs a change in the others without
instilling business disruption. (...)
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Agresso's information warehouse, business process, and reporting and analytics information delivery models are inextricably
linked in a virtual cy...
Published:
2006-10-17
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... in the last four or five years, the agile software development methodology has been jumping from the
software development area to the data warehouse space, as ...
Published:
2010-07-22
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Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools
and suites. Portlet standardization, enterprise information integration, and corporate performance management are among the
proposed solutions, but do they really deliver real time i (...)
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Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools
and suites. Portlet sta...
Published:
2005-06-29
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... will still need a place where it can be loaded from (ie, a data warehouse),
and I’m not sure that loading it directly from the operational systems is the way ...
Published:
2009-07-22
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The need to support flexibility prior to installation of enterprise systems has largely been mastered by many vendors. But
what is really more important is ongoing agility after the installation. Agresso seems to have raised the bar in this regard. (...)
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The need to support flexibility prior to installation of enterprise systems has largely been mastered by many vendors. But
what is really more imp...
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2006-10-16
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Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact.
Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly
complicated. (...)
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... In order to do this, the tools must be provided the metadata information about the source systems
and the target data warehouse. ...
Published:
2000-05-16