What is a Compatible Business Intelligence Environment?
A Compatible Business Intelligence Environment is a data environment composed of modular analytics-ready compatible datasets where these modules can be directly harmonized on-demand. All compatible data modules are designed to be directly interoperable, plug-and-play, and analytics-ready. These modules dynamically combine to form analytics-ready Compatible Data Fabrics as needed.
The Business Perspective
Conventional data warehouses, data lakes, and now data fabrics are specifically implemented to support business intelligence and analytics. However, compatible data systems already incorporate the same functionality as these specially constructed data systems at far less cost and far better efficiency. Beyond that, the flexibility of compatible data systems allows a business to rapidly respond to business changes and challenges that these conventional, specifically implemented data systems cannot.
Compatible data systems provide a means of building information for your business. Compatible operational datasets can be harmonized and aggregated to record operational, historical, or dashboard metrics, for example. Information can now be built rapidly and inexpensively. Since these informational metrics are themselves compatible, they can be harmonized with any other compatible data on-demand giving your business even more business intelligence and analytics opportunities.
The Technical Perspective
There is no longer a need to build data systems that specifically support business intelligence and analytics when data systems are compatible. Each compatible data system incorporates the needed functionality within its set of Data Compatibility Standards. If desired, compatible data systems can be denormalized, harmonized, and aggregated to improve data retrieval performance. In addition, compatible data can be used to derive new information metrics or historical aggregates. It is critical that all derived datasets are formed as compatible analytics-ready modules that retain their on-demand plug-and-play characteristics. These compatible derived datasets are intended to also become components in the enterprise’s Compatible Data Fabric.
Summary
Compatible data systems provide the best business intelligence foundation. All compatible data systems are modular components that can be instantaneously added to your Compatible Business Intelligence Environment on-demand. No other vendor is able to provide anything close to this business functionality.