03129nam 2200589Ia 450 991078352500332120200520144314.0(CKB)1000000000243375(OCoLC)228139119(CaPaEBR)ebrary10112625(SSID)ssj0000278477(PQKBManifestationID)11229590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278477(PQKBWorkID)10246459(PQKB)11773221(Au-PeEL)EBL3306601(CaPaEBR)ebr10112625(CaSebORM)0738493732(MiAaPQ)EBC3306601(EXLCZ)99100000000024337520041215d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrData mart consolidation[electronic resource] getting control of your enterprise information /Chuck Ballard et alSan Jose, CA IBMc20051 online resource (422 p.) RedbooksIncludes index."July 2005."0-7384-9373-2 Includes index.This IBM Redbooks publication is primarily intended for use by IBM Clients and IBM Business Partners. The current direction in the Business Intelligence marketplace is towards data mart consolidation. Originally data marts were built for many different reasons, such as departmental or organizational control, faster query response times, easier and faster to design and build, and fast payback. However, data marts did not always provide the best solution when it came to viewing the business enterprise as a whole. They provide benefits to the department or organization to whom they belong, but typically do not give management the information they need to efficiently and effectively run the business. In many cases the data marts led to the creation of departmental or organizational data silos (non-integrated sources of data). That is, information was available to the particular department or organization, but was not integrated across all the department’s or organizations. Worse yet, many data marts were built without concern for the others. This led to inconsistent definitions of the data, inconsistent collection of data, inconsistent collection times for the data, and so on. The result was an inconsistent picture of the business for management, and an inability for good business performance management. The solution is to consolidate those data silos to provide management the information they need.IBM redbooks.Database managementElectronic data processingDatabase management.Electronic data processing.Ballard Chuck1469444Gupta Amit1166801Krishnan Vijaya1511136Pessoa Nelson1511137Stephan Olaf1511138MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783525003321Data mart consolidation3744201UNINA