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The Changing Role of the Data Warehouse,
Wednesday, 07 November 2007 01:00
GoldenGate Software has announced the results of a recent survey, “Moving From Analytics to Operational Business Intelligence: The Changing Role of the Data Warehouse,” produced by Unisphere Research and the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), in cooperation with GoldenGate Software. The survey finds that while many organisations have an established data warehouse, the demand for operational business intelligence— impacting a wider range of decision makers across the enterprise—is increasing.

The recent research study takes a closer look at how organisations are using their data warehouses and the underlying infrastructure and data acquisition approaches and technologies, in addition to the level of availability for the warehouse. Completed by 413 respondents from a broad range of industries, some key findings in the survey are:

  • More than 80 percent of respondents indicated that their enterprises support a data warehouse
  • Almost half of the data warehouses are growing between 10 and 50 percent annually
  • More than 25 percent of respondents have between one and five terabytes of data stored in their data warehouses
  • Twenty percent of respondents reported that more than 500 people access the data in their data warehouses
  • 31 percent indicated that data warehousing served as the foundation for more than 150 reports each month
  • More than 40 percent of respondents indicated that they have more than ten different sources populating the data warehouse

A little more than half of the respondents indicated that their data warehouse currently supports operational business intelligence applications

More than 90 percent of these respondents anticipate increased use of operational business intelligence over the next year