Chapter 14. Data Warehousing and the Web
Overview
There was a time when, if you mentioned integrating the data warehouse with the Web, people would stare at you and ask, “Why on earth would you want to do that?” Most of us, when we first think of the Web, probably imagine checking out a company’s product or placing an order, so what does that have to do with our data warehouse? Well, you may be very surprised at how important the Web could be to your data warehouse.
Today, as described in Chapter 1, applications and tools are evolving toward browser-based solutions. We saw in Chapter 13 that Discoverer Viewer is a browser-based tool for querying your data. Now, imagine tightly integrating that tool into the Web pages you are viewing, and an extremely ...
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