Moving Forward with the On Demand Real-time Enterprise

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SG24-7104-00 ISBN 0738494917

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Moving Forward

with the On Demand

Real-time Enterprise

Architecting the data

warehousing

environment for

real-time

Modifying business

processes to support

continuous flow

Delivering business

intelligence, on

demand

Having more, and more current, information is fast becoming a

requirement for business survival. The need permeates the

enterprise because it enables proactive decision-making for

problem avoidance, rather than reactive problem impact

minimization. And that is the key. Thus the need for, and focus on,

is real-time.

Companies no longer have the long strategic time-frames in which

to plan, design, and manage their business processes. Yearly

revenue goals and measurements are fast becoming quarterly goals

and measurements. Investors and share-holders are more

demanding. They are more critical, and less forgiving, of missed

performance goals. And these demands are coming at a time when

the volume of data is growing, there is an increase in business

mergers and acquisitions, the use of strategic outsourcing is

growing, and there is an increasing requirement for faster and

faster turnaround on information requests. This has put an

enormous burden on the information technology (IT) organizations.

And most of this change is centered around business intelligence,

because that is the environment responsible for providing

information for management decision-making.

This IBM Redbook explores the techniques and capabilities for

evolving to a real-time enterprise. It also demonstrates approaches

for that evolution and provides examples to help guide you in

developing your strategy and implementation methodology to

become a real-time enterprise.

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