The Warehouse to the Web

The Warehouse to the Web
In early implementations, the corporate data warehouse was intended for managers, executives, business analysis, and a few other high level employees as a tool for analysis and decision making. Information limn the data warehouse was delivered to this group of Users in a client/server environment. But today's data warehouses are no longer confined to a select group of internal users. Under present conditions, corporations need to increase the productivity of all the members in the corporation's value chain. Useful information from the corporate data warehouse must be provided not only to the employees but also to customers, suppliers and all other business partners.

So in today's business climate, you need to open your data warehouse to the entire community of users in the value chain, and pet hips also to the general public. This is a tall order. Low can you accomplish this requirement hi serve information to thousands of user in 24 x 7 mode'? How can you do this without incurring exorbitant costs for information delivery'? T.lic Internet along with Web technology is the answer. The Web will be your primary information delivery mechanism.

This new delivery method will radically change the ways your users will retrieve, analyze, and share information from your data warehouse. The components of your information delivery will be different. The Internet interface will include browser, search engine, push technology, home page, information content, hypertext links, and downloaded Java or Active X apple is.

When you bring your data warehouse to the Web from the point of view of the users, the key requirements are self-service data access, interactive analysis, high availability and performance, zero-administration client (thin client technology such as Java applets), tight security, and unified metadata.