Modern Enterprise Business Intelligence and Data Management

Preface

Terminology

One of the primary challenges to the art and science of enterprise data management is that practitioners often disagree about the scope and scale of “enterprise” or what types of data should be considered for management under the umbrella of a given initiative. This brief Preface defines enterprise data management from the context that we’ll be using throughout this book.

Defining “Enterprise”

Surprisingly, defining an enterprise for the purposes of managing data is not necessarily a straightforward matter. In the most general sense, one might think of an enterprise as an entire company; or, in the public sector, an entire governmental agency.

The complicating factor is that some companies and governmental agencies are ...