An Analysis of Key Enterprise Data Concepts
Garreth H. Dowlen II
Database Management Systems 405
Nasser Halwani
December 14, 2004
An Analysis of Key Enterprise Data Concepts
Business intelligence has several different meanings depending upon the organization and its goal. I general, it involves the collection of data and using it to predict future trends. This information is used to make decisions regarding the direction of said organization. Many businesses offer solutions that propose to pull together data from a variety of sources into a single repository and then analyze the data to gleam whatever information is needed. Regardless of the overall solution recommended, there are 4 basic concepts that they all employ:
• Data warehouse
• Data mart
• Data mining
• 3-tier architecture.
A datawarehouse is a repository of transactional data that has been specifically structured for querying and reporting on the data contained within in it. The format of......
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