Business drivers are the people information and tasks that support the fulfillment of a business objective They lead the company trying to get it away from pitfalls and turn unforeseen mistakes into good lessons for future success and sustainability A business needs to be constantly driven and updated to be at par with its competitors and...
Business architecture is one of the four layers of an IT architecture The other three layers are information applications and technology Business architecture describes the business processes utilized within the organization If one looks at the dictionary architecture is define as a unifying or coherent form or structure...
Business experts are people who thoroughly understand the business and the data supporting the business They know the specific business rules and processes In a typical company setup a person will have a long way to climb up the corporate ladder so he or she will land on top manager positions During the period that he is climbing the corporate...
A schema that represents the structure of business transactions used by clients in the real world It is considered to be unnormalized data The dictionary defines the word schema" as a plan diagram scheme or an underlying organizational structure It can also mean a conceptual framework Running a business is a not a...
Business driven data distribution refers to the situation where the business need for data at a specific location drives the company to develop a data site and the distribution of data to the said newly developed site This data distribution is independent of a telecommunications network Having a data warehouse can have tremendous positive impact...
A cache is a type of dynamic and high speed memory that is used to supplement the function of the central processing unit and the physical disk storage The cache acts as a buffer when the CPU tries to access data from the disk so the data traveling from the CPU and physical disks can have synchronized speed Disk reading and writing process is generally...
B Tree is an indexing technique most commonly used in databases and file systems where pointers to data are placed in a balance tree structure so that all references to any data can be accessed in an equal time frame It is also a tree data structure which keeps data sorted so that searching inserting and deleting can be done in logarithmic amortized...
In relational database management system RDBMS terminology Access Path refers to the path chosen by the system to retrieve data after a structured query language SQL request is executed A query may request at least one variable to be filled up with one value or more A query may look like this SELECT family name FROM users WHERE family name...
An Ad Hoc Query is a query that cannot be determined prior to the moment the query is issued It is created in order to get information when need arises and it consists of dynamically constructed SQL which is usually constructed by desktop resident query tools This is in contrast to any query which is predefine and performed routinely The word Ad...
Bulk data transfer is software based mechanism designed to move large data file using compression blocking and buffering methods to optimize transfer times Every single second of everyday data moves from computer to another Some move over the local area network other over the wide area network or over the internet Data can move from storage...
Business Activities refer the component of information technology infrastructure representing all the business activities in a company whether they are manual or automated Business activities utilize all data resources and platform resources in order to performing specific tasks and duties of the company For a company to survive in the business...
Bit Map Indexing is a technique commonly used in relational databases where the application uses binary coding in representing data This technique was originally used for low cardinality data but recent applications like the Sybase IQ have used this technique efficiently The word cardinality is an SQL term to refer to the uniqueness of a data value...
Bi directional extracts refer to the ability of a system to extract cleanse and transfer data in two directions among different database types which include hierarchical networked and relational databases This functionality is extremely useful in data warehousing projects Data warehouse extraction is the process of retrieving all sorts of data...
Data Mart is a subset of the data resource usually oriented to a specific purpose or major data subject that may be distributed to support business needs The concept of a data mart can apply to any data whether they are operational data evaluational data spatial data or metadata A data mart is a repository of a business organization s data implemented...
Data Mining is the process of utilizing the results of data exploration to adjust or enhance business strategies It builds on the patterns trends and exceptions found through data exploration to support the business It is also known as data harvesting Data mining is also a technique using software tools geared for the user who typically does...
Data Model is a logical map that represents the inherent properties of the data independent of software hardware or machine performance considerations The model shows data elements grouped into records as well as the association around those records Since the data model is the basis for data implementation regardless of software or hardware platforms...
Data Modeling is a method used to define and analyze data requirements needed to support the business functions of an enterprise These data requirements are recorded as a conceptual data model with associated data definitions Data modeling defines the relationships between data elements and structures Data modeling can be used for a wide array of...
Data administration refers to the  way in  which data integrity is maintained within data  warehouse Data warehouses are very large repository of all sorts of data These data maybe of different formats To make these data useful to the company the database running the data warehouse has to be configured so that it obeys the business...
In Data Aggregation value is derived from the aggregation of two or more contributing data characteristics Aggregation  can be made from  different data occurrences within the same data subject business transactions and a de normalized database and between the real world and detailed data resource design within the common data...
Clustering in the computer science world is the classification of data or object into different groups It can also be referred to as partitioning of a data set into different subsets Each data in the subset ideally shares some common traits Data cluster are created to meet specific requirements that cannot created using any of the categorical levels...