CHAPTER 2
Introducing the Corporate Information Factory
As discussed in Chapter 1, the corporate information factory (CIF) is an architecture—an infrastructure—for the information ecosystem, consisting of the following components:
External world
Applications
Integration and transformation layer (I & T layer)
Operational data store (ODS)
Data warehouse
Data mart(s)
Internet and intranet
Metadata repository
Exploration and data mining data warehouse
Alternative storage ...
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