Business Condtions – Executive Summary
Businesses today are driven to manage enterprise performance but face the reality that key business information at the enterprise level is still largely inaccessible. Regardless of the fact that organizations have spent countless millions on integrated systems in the past decade, the promise of integrated, enterprise level reporting and analysis capabilities is only now becoming a reality in corporate America.
Providing integrated enterprise management systems for reporting and analytics requires that systems be designed and built in distinctly different ways from systems that capture daily business transactions.
This paper explores the business and technology conditions that drive the need for data warehousing and business intelligence.