Chapter 12

The Data Delivery Platform—A New Architecture for Business Intelligence Systems

12.1 Introduction

This chapter does not describe another aspect or feature of data virtualization, nor does it explain an application area; instead, it describes the data delivery platform (DDP). The DDP is a flexible architecture for designing and developing business intelligence systems. The architecture is an alternative to the business intelligence architectures described in Section 2.8.

We include this architecture in this book because it’s based on the same principles and concepts as data virtualization: abstraction, encapsulation, decoupling, on-demand transformation, and so on. In fact, the simplest way to develop a business intelligence system ...

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