What Is the Next-Generation Data Warehouse?
Just as we witnessed the functions of manufacturing and distribution evolve to a just-in-time philosophy, IT and all its disciplines must also make the leap to just-in-time information. The worst offender has been data warehousing, which has been focused on long-term trends and, at best, near-real-time information. The new model will need to integrate real-time metrics with the context of historical information. Business activity monitoring (BAM) infrastructure will need to be integrated with the data warehouse to support this new model. The next-generation data warehouse will advance and align the strategies and objectives of both IT and the business, as well as extend and integrate information across organizational boundaries. Are You Ready for the Next Generation? We are experiencing the evolution of software feature/function capabilities made available through business intelligence and data warehousing (BI/DW) technologies. The macroscopic view of the BI/DW technology stack outline
