Business data refers to the information about people places things business rules and events in relation to operating a business. Serious businesses need to consider setting up business intelligence and data warehouses.  In pursuing these capabilities they need to adopt a holistic view coupled with wise investment and careful execution. ...

A Business-driven approach is any process of identifying the data needed to support business activities acquiring or capturing those data and maintaining them in the data resource. Everyday billions of data and information gets carried across different communications media.  The number medium is of course the internet.  Another data communications...

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...

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...

Data tracking involves tracing data from the point of its origin to its final state.  Data tracking is very useful in a data warehouse implementation. As it is very well known a data warehouse is very complex system that involves disparate data coming various operational data sources and data marts. Hence data keeps traveling from one server...