As the discussion of Federated Data Warehouses has been prevelant lately for me I thought I would share a nice document/survey finding. I participated in this survey and enjoyed reading the results. Here is a quick capture of some of the findings…
Primary Drivers for EII Projects
49% Better access to information
37% Complement other data integration approaches (ETL or EAI)
Main Reasons for Using EII
46% Combine information from disparate data sources
41% Support operational decision making
39% Feed business intelligence or other analytical applicationsApplications that Use Integrated Data
58% Business Intelligence tools
47% Web-based application
42% Web Service
Check out the results by downloading the report here.
