Data Warehousing
The data warehouse is the key behind a competent BI system. It’s where your data is stored and organized so business users can access and query it to help the company move in the right direction. It is critically important that the data warehouse be accurate, up-to-date, and the trusted source for your business intelligence.
Yet building the data warehouse conjures up images of entity-relationship diagrams, ETL programming, armies of DBAs and usually similar numbers of systems integration consultants camped in your data center for months on end. Building and deploying a data warehouse can take 12 months or more -- and that’s after the time it takes to gather accurate requirements from the business. And during the process, you want to ensure that the best practices in data warehouse design are followed.
And then the business changes.
Now your fragile, hand-programmed data warehouse must change. On a dime.
Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse was designed with this flexibility in mind. Leveraging the best practices of over 250 implementations worldwide, Kalido DIW stores data independently of the business model that governs it; and only engages the data when necessary. With robust tools and wizards to maintain an accurate, consistent and timely environment, Kalido DIW eliminates or automates many of the manual steps needed in traditional methods. In addition, DIW time stamps every piece of data, so you’ll never have to worry about version control or data lineage again. Kalido DIW is the one warehouse that keeps pace with your business instead of dragging it down.
With Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse behind your BI, you’ll:
- Reduce the amount of custom ETL programming you need to write
- Have a system based on a business information model that can rapidly change when a business event causes upheaval in the underlying data warehouse
- Have a bullet-proof audit trail of how the business looked then and now
- Run a system that enforces data warehouse best practices from Kimball and Inmon