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It's no-show time: Cliff Mills, NCC Research (February 2010)
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It has often been said that information is the lifeblood of any company. Yet extracting relevant information from across the
organisation seems to be as difficult and complex as ever, despite the growing availability of data warehousing and business
intelligence tools.
For years, companies have been introducing financial, transactional and production applications that provide a wealth of data;
but analysing this data and turning it into meaningful information has been akin to searching for the Holy Grail. Many
companies have gone through a number of iterations of management information systems and have ended up with a mishmash
of different data warehouses and analysis tools.
One underlying problem is in ensuring the quality and consistency of data across the organisation. While many departmental
systems may provide satisfactory information in their own right, when users try to extend the analysis across the business,
then the systems can be found wanting.
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How do you want your data?: Chris Bradley, IPL (April 2010)
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Most organisations today have a business intelligence and data warehouse solution of some
sort. The maturity of this technology has moved on from departmental and then operational BI
to the position we now see in many corporates – ‘enterprise BI’.
The availability of a new generation of BI tools and solutions which easily integrate with ERP
systems has undoubtedly provided real benefit. However, the information explosion, the
plethora of tool options available and information regulation and compliance, together present
companies with two key challenges:
1. Data migration and ETL vs EII (or both?).
By now most IT users will be familiar with the purpose of extract, transform and load (ETL)
tools. Less well-known, however, are the capabilities of data virtualisation or enterprise
information integration (EII) tools such as Composite or MetaMatrix.
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