by Angela Guess
A new article discusses several common business intelligence architectures. It begins, “As any veteran BI professional knows, business intelligence architectures come in all shapes and sizes. There is no one way to build a data warehouse and BI environment. Many organizations try various approaches until they find one that works, and then they evolve that architecture to meet new business demands. Along the way, each BI team needs to allocate responsibility for various parts of a BI architecture between corporate and business unit teams. Finding the right place to draw the proverbial architectural line is challenging.”
The above picture “shows a typical BI stack with master data flowing into a data warehouse along with source data via an ETL tool. Data architects create business rules that are manifested in a logical model for departmental marts and business objects within a BI tool. BI developers who write code and assemblers who stitch together predefined information objects also create reports and dashboards for business users. Typically, most databases and servers that power operational and analytical systems run in a corporate data center.”
Learn about other organizational models that use this architecture here.
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