Monday, October 11, 2004

Data Warehousing Architecture Alternatives

Forrester Research: Technology research and advice.: "Data warehousing architecture is needed to accommodate dynamic business requirements that cannot be anticipated. Without data warehousing architecture, organizational form and IT function operate at cross purposes. Meanwhile, lack of fit between organizational form and architecture has resulted in the religious wars for which data warehousing has become famous. These are avoidable by aligning form and structure. Firms that are highly centralized in geography and governance should pursue centralized data warehouse architecture to reap the greatest operational efficiencies and business benefits. Firms that are highly decentralized will prefer a distributed architecture; those with a mixed organizational pattern should implement a federated one."

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