Building a Common Data Foundation for Enterprise Integration and Growth
We’re part of a braver new world where BI is not just for back-office employees anymore. Instead, it’s becoming pervasive.
- By Julianna DeLua
- June 20, 2008
If you are thinking about how best to establish and ensure the success of a real-time integration competency center (ICC) within your organization, you are part of a rapidly growing vanguard of information management professionals.
The impetus for enterprise integration is stronger than ever thanks to an accelerated move toward real-time information management. We’re part of a braver new world where BI is not just for back-office employees anymore. Instead, it’s becoming pervasive. Pervasive BIis about delivering right-time information to all users, including front-line operational personnel, customers, and partners. Although data integration provides the critical underpinning, it is not data integration as it has been traditionally understood or employed.
This article originally appeared in the issue of TDWI.