By Jason Tiret
It has been widely documented - data is growing at astronomical rates. The amount of data your organization has is less important than how the data is being used. Is data growth hindering your business or is it providing a better understanding of the direction you need to go?
Data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) are evolving to become more operational in nature, rather than BI's traditional classification as a purely strategic function. That means more data marts, more moving parts and a wider reach throughout organizations. Keeping pace with this evolution requires creating more documentation of the data and the data models. Data models are now as much about lineage and data "whereabouts" as they are about engineering quality databases, putting them squarely in the data warehousing/BI realm. Read more.