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Define Real-time information |
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immediate up-to-date information |
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Provides real-time information in response to query requests |
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Maintains information about various types of objects, events, people, and places |
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Person, place, thing, transaction, or event about which information is stored. |
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characteristics or properties of an entity |
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Allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other |
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Define Forward Integration |
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takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all DOWNSTREAM systems and processes |
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Define Backward integration |
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takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all upstream systems and processes. |
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A logical collection of information - gathered from many different operational databases - that supports business analysis and decision-making tasks |
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What is the primary purpose of a data warehouse? |
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to aggregate information throughout an organization into a single repository for decision making purposes |
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Extraction, transformation, loading. |
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contains a subset of data warehouse information |
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information cleansing or scrubbing |
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weeds out and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect, or incomplete information |
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The process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone |
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