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Q: What characterizes good data access?
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Integrated BI Software And Data Access
One business intelligence vendor has characterized data access as potentially fragmented when viewed in a systems context.This is especially evident when tracking transactions across many functional business areas.The vendor goes on to point out that their system, Cognos 8, offers a powerful array of access hooks that may be useful to potential buyers of BI reporting software.They are:
·ETL – Extract, Transform, Load – Integrates data from multiple sources to a common repository location.
·EII – Enterprise Information Integration – connects to multiple disparate data sources in near real-time.
·Direct Access – If your organization has some rudimentary level of BI with some tools in place, this capability can provide seamless access.
·Common Metadata – Structures data regardless of source and format into a common foundation using rules, calculation, and filter technologies.
