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Integrating Data in a Heterogeneous and Real-Time IT Environment
Summary and Evaluation
Technology has changed vastly in the last fifty years. These changes can be seen in many areas such as airline reservation systems, automated teller machines, mobile phones, the internet, world wide web and sensor networks. These sources generate a lot of data; heterogeneous data means coming from different sources. Businesses have focused on automating their processes, and they have realized that data integration is becoming complicated. Thus, it is important to understand how to integrate and analyze data in real-time.
In this webinar, speaker Colin White talks about the Integration of data into a heterogeneous environment as well
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The main goal of this real-time data operation intelligence is to eliminate the data warehousing latencies. By achieving this, the organization can make better decisions hence able to make more rapid decisions.
The security factor in data warehousing is a main area to focus on. Colin discusses an example of a company that was highly charged due to not using the fraud detecting system. Thus, the company faced a $45 million fraud because of poor security. To clarify, two people took $45 Million from an ATM Scheme; they used two card numbers to steal the money. However, the banks didn’t detect the fraud because their data integration system was inefficient.
Operational intelligence workflow is also discussed in detail with its 3 types of environments. There are three types of environment; the first one is data warehouse environment, where the data aren’t changing. This is where the data is analyzed because it is at rest. The other two are operating systems and real-time analysis platforms, where we can make models, analyze data, and make the analysis. The Analytics and alerts along with the recommendations are shaped by analyzing Enterprise Data warehouses. Operational dashboard shows what is going on with our business and what changes we should make. This output is sent to the users via nearby RT operational dashboards.
Colin lists four options for data integration. There are four approaches of OI; the first one is Enterprise DW which has a
Target Corporation allocated large budget to upgrade information system as part of a roadmap to transform business (Target Roadmap, 2015). Once the upgrade is completed, it will provide a large amount of intelligent data for internal resources to support customers faster. It further tracks performance and controls accurately the timely information about daily operations in real time. The automated online and on-demand ad-hoc reports generate reports for each store any time as well retains records of products and services.
In the case of real-time analysis dashboards have become very popular over the past five years they provide a view of key metrics to allow management by exception. Where post transaction data is being analyzed, data warehousing provides the ideal methodology for enhanced forecasting from the data. This also allows the ability to look for improvements in the supply chain, operations, and marketing to adjust processes and refine a message for marketing as part of a continuous improvement program.
The Fresh Direct has 300,000-square-foot headquarter and 1,500 employees. 8,500 products and 200,000 customers active in every day transaction. So every second there will be numerous data flowing into the company’s center. But the company lacks of a significant information system to deal with those data. They tried to use technology to convert the data to reports of real time information in order to
ABSTRACT: Combining various systems to form one single information system is called Integration. A sound integrated system is very important to facilitate the passage of information from one system to another. Also if the system is properly integrated data from the various partnering systems can be accessed more easily. But it is not as easy as it sounds. The process of integration requires a lot of challenges.
system is very easily understood in the present report with the help of the case study of O2
Always access and process the data you need. Improve data integrity at the source with automatic processes that consolidate, cleanse and standardize your data directly in your operational environments. Offer a collaborative environment with a common set of tools that promote the reuse and sharing of data to achieve faster results and lower costs. Deliver consistent, trusted and verifiable
The data stored in the warehouse is uploaded from the operational systems for example marketing, sales, etc. The data may be passing through an operational data store for additional operations before it is used in the DW for reporting.
· Extracting data from source systems, transforming it, and then loading it into a data warehouse
This chapter examines about the real time analytics for different software applications and the current implementation to gather the need. It also constitutes the tabular evaluation between the current implementations.
The backend of the system requires software and hardware to manipulate the data once it collected. While there are many software applications on the market, unless you are part of a company’s Information Systems team, you will not come into contact with this part of the system. Furthermore, there are too many options to cover in this presentation.
An enterprise data is large and complex and spread out through a variety of different in-house and external systems. Also there is a need to analyze the data across different systems by location, time and channel. Hence the data integration is needed here so that all the data organized and stored in one location. It also cuts down time and the lengthy process involved in generation of reports because a series of steps involved in it which are stripping and extraction of data from one source and then sorting and merging of data and then enriching the data by
Online analytical processing (OLAP) is generally used to provide analysis of complex data. Often it is applied with a data warehouse. A data warehouse is similar to a regular database but they have differences. According to Inmon a data warehouse is “a subject-oriented, integrated, non-volatile, time-variant collection of data in support of management’s decisions [3]. Data warehouses provide more detailed information than regular databases, one reason they are recommended for analytics. Another way of describing it is, “Data warehousing is a collection of decision support technologies, aimed at enabling the knowledge worker (executive, manager, analyst) to generate wiser and faster decisions. [4] When using OLAP tools with data warehousing it can give the decision maker a clear advantage, which could give insight into why it is so highly valued. These mechanisms can help increase efficiency and provide them with a powerful advantage. At the core of any OLAP system is an OLAP cube
Since the first version of “Data Warehousing Fundamentals”, many corporations have implemented data warehousing systems, in addition to implementation the great benefits are notice. Many more enterprises are in the process of adopting this technology.
The main objective of this project was to meet the needs of data management, capturing data from various data sources and integrating the data into a database for reporting purposes. This was achieved previously using a legacy system called as FOCUS and is now replaced by a database using SQL Server Business Intelligence. SQL Service Business Intelligence is not only used to load data into the database but also provides tools for reporting and analysis services. Loading data is done using a tool provided by SQL Server called