Description
The original Data Warehouse architecture of the 1980s separated decision support from day-to-day business operations. This supported Decision-Making needs at the time and was easily implemented on then emerging technologies, such as relational databases. However, today s Business needs fully integrated processes, closely linking information and activities from all areas of the Enterprise. Decision-Making and Action-Taking are tightly bound. Business cycles are dramatically shorter and span company boundaries. So far, Enterprise IT, including Business Intelligence, has responded slowly and incoherently.
Business Integrated Insight (BI2) is a new architecture that reintegrates all Decision-Making and Action-Taking into the overall processes of the Business. Starting from the Data Warehouse, it incorporates a variety of technological advances, such as SOA, distributed access, Web technologies, Content Management and specialised relational databases. BI2 thus provides a comprehensive structure for the full Enterprise IT integration demanded by modern Businesses. In addition, it directly addresses the current Data Warehousing issues, such as operational BI, executive Decision-Support, comprehensive information discovery and innovation, and Enterprise-Wide Decision Management. And, although novel, BI2 is designed as an evolution from current Data Warehouse, operational and collaborative technologies.