The Face of Analytic Data Access

DM Review, May, 2008 by William McKnight

The following is excerpted from the William McKnight white paper “Modernizing and Advancing Information Management across the Enterprise.”

The face of analytic data access is changing, whether it occurs in operations or with a batch-loaded data warehouse. Investments in the online analytical processing paradigm give way to embedded and machine-driven forms of business intelligence (BI), allowing business analysts to accede to higher functions of the business. Information leadership drives power to the business and the programmer.

However, many more organizational strategies and people within those organizations are coming online with more complete utilization of information. Increasingly, users comprise diverse business interests and perspectives relative to the...

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