TDWI Summer

Prerequisite: None

Claudia Imhoff

Ph.D.

In the past decade, we have seen business intelligence expand into every corner of an organization. There is no part that does not require some form of BI. We also have seen a marvelous influx of innovative and useful technologies to support this new paradigm. These changes, though, wreak havoc on established BI environments that are not based on a sound and flexible architecture.

Fortunately, the Corporate Information Factory (CIF) is just such an architecture! This presentation describes the extension of the CIF to accommodate the latest technologies and techniques for supporting your BI environment. These include accommodating BPM, BAM, or other performance initiatives; facilitating operational BI; supporting virtual and physical components through consolidation, propagation, and federation techniques; and the support mechanisms to ensure the necessary enterprise focus for full BI value.

You Will Learn

• Why an architecture is needed and how the CIF fills that bill
• The new ways that data gets into the environment and out into the hands of the business community
• The environmental support mechanisms that ensure full enterprise access to critical BI capabilities
• The rationale behind each of the CIF components
• Methodologies for implementing each component and tips for getting started

Geared To

• Data warehousing professionals
• Business executives with a stake in the data warehouse