3.2

Integrated Corporate Data

Abstract

Corporate data is data looking across the corporation. Organization that have applications do not have corporate data. ETL is technology that is used to achieve corporate data. ETL transforms data. ETL does not merely copy data from one environment to another. The transformation occurs for metadata, actual values of data, structures of data, and so forth. The result of transforming data is a data warehouse. The granular data in the data warehouse allows data to be examined in many different perspectives.

Keywords

corporate data
application data
ETL
data warehouse
transformation
granular data
different perspectives
metadata
data structures
In the beginning were applications. The focus and concern ...

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