Even
though many organisations have an established data warehouse, the
demand foroperational business intelligenceis
increasing according to a survey from GoldenGate, a provider of
real-time data integration solutions.
The company
defines operational business intelligence (BI) as the effort to
integrate analytical and trend information with operational
processes to enable more informed and real-time decision making.
Thus it says that a centralised data repository used by
sophisticated analysts was no longer sufficient.
The survey, ‘Moving From Analytics to Operational Business
Intelligence: The Changing Role of the Data Warehouse,’ shows
how organisations are using their data warehouses and the
underlying infrastructure and data acquisition approaches and
technologies, in addition to the level of availability for the
warehouse.
A little more than
half of the respondents in the survey indicated that their
data warehouse currently supports operational business
intelligence applications and more than 90% anticipating increased
use of operational business intelligence over the next year.
Other key findings
in the survey include more than four-fifths of respondents
indicating that their enterprises support a data warehouse; almost
half of the data warehouses are growing between 10–50%; more than a
quarter of respondents having between one and five terabytes of
data stored in their data warehouses; a fifth of respondents
reporting that more than 500 people access the data in their data
warehouses; nearly a third indicating that data warehousing served
as the foundation for more than 150 reports each month; more than
40% of respondents indicating that they have more than ten
different sources populating the data warehouse.
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