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Service teams, who have helped implement many successful data warehouse

solutions for their customers.

These offerings contain physical data models and sample reports based on

specific business issues (Customer Insight, Supply Chain Insight, and Market &

Campaign Insight) that help drastically reduce project implementation times,

costs, and the risk involved for customers, as compared with normal custom data

warehouse projects. These packs cover the following areas:

򐂰 InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Customer Insight enables organizations to

gather, organize, and use relevant information about current customers, thus

bringing them closer to their customers.

򐂰 InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Market and Campaign Insight enables

organizations to gather, organize, and use relevant information about the

overall market and how to acquire new customers.

򐂰 InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Supply Chain Insight enables organizations

to gather, organize, and use relevant information about their supply chain and

associated performance.

2.2 InfoSphere Warehouse technical overview

InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition aims to bring together all the

components required for a successful, cost-efficient data warehouse solution,

The components range from the development tools needed to create your ETL,

OLAP, and data mining, to the BI tools used in understanding your market.

InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition also offers the tools needed to

manage your backup strategy, drive consistency across your business, and bring

out the best performance of your data warehouse and the applications

connected to it.

In this section, we provide insight into the technical architecture of InfoSphere

Warehouse, taking into account the development and runtime components of the

core product. Additionally, we include the technical architecture of the Cognos 10

reporting server and its relationship within the complete solution.

Because InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Enterprise Edition also includes a

number of Optim products, we include insight into Optim architecture to create a

complete overview of an implemented data warehouse solution. For

completeness, we briefly discuss the various metadata databases required

within an implementation of an InfoSphere Warehouse and the Optim tool set.