Data Architecture

20. The Enterprise Data Warehouse

As we’ve said before, 20 years ago, a new field was created that came to be known as enterprise a rchitecture. The goal initially was to address two problems: application complexity (organizations were spending more and more money building IT applications) and poor business alignment (organizations were finding it more and more difficult to keep increasingly expensive IT systems aligned with the business needs). From the business perspective, it was more cost, less value.

As we’ve said before, 20 years ago, a new field was created that came to be known as enterprise a rchitecture. The goal initially was to address two problems: application complexity (organizations were spending more and more money building IT ...