A wave of innovation is sweeping across the enterprise data landscape, causing data management purists to sit up and take notice. For nearly two decades most of us have planned, built, maintained and defended the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The EDW has played a critical role in how we serve our businesses with information and, for most of us, has proven to be an excellent investment. Early on, the EDW did an excellent job of serving the needs of business intelligence professionals, but was often challenged to maintain pace with how information use was evolving.
Today, the EDW is under pressure from forces that were not present as recently as five years ago. These changes don’t spell the end of the EDW era, but certainly indicate that the ecosystem will expand to include new technologies and systems.
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