Chapter 2

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

2.1 Introduction

Data virtualization can be deployed usefully in many application areas, including service-oriented architectures, master data management, Internet-based applications, and business intelligence, just to name a few. This book primarily focuses on how to exploit data virtualization in business intelligence systems. It discusses how it will make these systems more agile.

To clearly explain the difference between a business intelligence system that does deploy data virtualization and one that doesn’t, this chapter describes the concepts and building blocks of classic business intelligence systems, such as central data warehouse, data mart, operational store, ETL, and replication. ...

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