A service-level agreement (SLA) is a contract that spells out in measurable terms what services a provider will deliver to a customer. Though conventional wisdom suggests that SLAs accompany data warehouses, little has been written about data warehouse SLAs. Let's take a closer look at data warehouse SLAs--their benefits, the areas of quality they should cover, and some of the implications and solution components for successful implementation.
Some folks tout an intriguing, if esoteric, use case for EII: as a tool to help prototype the design or expansion of a data warehouse.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
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- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
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- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
MicroStrategy continues to go its own way in the fast-changing BI suite-scape.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
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- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
It might spell doom and gloom for vendors, but many BI pros think Microsoft’s BI push is good news for Microsoft-centric BI shops
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006