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Enabling The Real-Time Enterprise
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A data warehouse appliance uses commodity processors and hardware optimized for BI and combines them with software built specifically for data warehouse-based analytics in a single box. This paper examines the value of Data Warehouse Appliances.
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Introduction
The real-time enterprise (RTE) has emerged as a new computing paradigm, and is, according to Gartner, “this decade’s evolutionary trajectory of the traditional global organization – that is, an enterprise must continually adapt to a totally unpredictable and rapidly changing business environment.” By embracing the RTE, companies can harness their fragmented IT landscape (caused by deploying disparate systems from multiple vendors) and increase the return on their existing investment in packaged applications (many of which have frustrated IT and business managers alike by not living up to expectations) by building a flexible architecture that accommodates dynamic business conditions. The RTE accelerates the velocity of information throughout the enterprise while automating, auditing, and continuously refining key business processes. Additionally, it can help fill in the information “blind spots” created by applications that were deployed to optimize local functional areas, without seeing the global picture. The end result of the RTE is faster decision-making, improved performance management, shortened business cycles, and an architecture that supports constant innovation and rapid change.
Companies that move quickly to build the RTE will enjoy significant competitive advantage and dramatically reduced costs through increased agility and decreased business cycle times. They’ll gain better insight into enterprise operational and financial performance through immediate alerts based on critical events. Managers will no longer have to manage by looking through the rearview mirror at old data, but can spot problems early on and take immediate action. And, organizations don’t have to keep customers and partners waiting while data entry clerks re-key data from one system to another. Nor does it take companies months or years to evolve existing systems to gain a competitive advantage. This is the basis of the RTE, which calls for marrying an organization’s business strategy with a computing architecture that can be easily changed to meet new demands.
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