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Part 6 — Real-Time Business Intelligence

Yesterday’s Data is No Longer Sufficient Use of an online data warehouse solves a strategic need of the enterprise because it manipulates massive amounts of data via data mining to derive new information and knowledge of an enterprise’s operations. However, online data warehousing has little tactical value since the data in it is generally quite…

Part 7 — The Operational Data Store (ODS): The Next Evolutionary Step

What is an Operational Data Store? In the early 2000s, the Gartner Group coined the term zero latency enterprise (ZLE). In its words, ZLE was “the instantaneous awareness and appropriate response to events across an entire enterprise.” This response was later renamed the real-time enterprise (RTE). Figure 1 shows an operational data store (ODS) network,…

Part 4 — Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

As online data warehouse technology matured, another solution for integrating enterprise-wide data appeared, called enterprise application integration (EAI). In many cases, the functioning of one enterprise system is significantly enhanced if it requests data or immediately receives newly generated data from other systems. For instance, an inventory-control system could be much more responsive if it…

Part 3 — History of Business Intelligence

The Early Days of Computing Typically, early business applications had their own databases that supported their functions, which became siloed because no other systems had access to them. These islands of information proliferated as more and more departments were automated. Mergers and acquisitions compounded the problem since the companies integrated totally different systems, many of…

Real-Time Business Intelligence Overview

As company strategies are increasingly demand-driven, real-time data warehousing and downstream business intelligence are playing an ever more important role. In this rapidly changing marketplace, the most successful companies are those that can predict – and react faster to – market trends and opportunities. White Paper: The Evolution of Real-Time Business Intelligence Solution Brief: HPE…

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