Chapter 1. Data warehousing on System z 5
The need to integrate structured and unstructured data sources
Lack of trust in data sources
The need for rapid deployment of new systems
Scalability of systems.
The need to provide extended search capabilities across all enterprise data
The need to create master data sets of information important to the business, for example,
customers, products, and suppliers
Lack of agility in regard to inflexible IT systems
Employees are spending too much time on managing change in these systems rather
than doing more strategic tasks
Lack of self-service BI query, reports, and analysis
Time too long for operational data updates to flow from an ODS to scorecards and
dashboards in a traditional BI impleme ...