Today’s fast-paced world requires responsiveness in all types of interactions with customers, prospects, partners and employees. Organizations must be able to respond in the moment or risk missing the opportunity altogether. To do this, the systems and process an organization has in place must be agile enough to deal with the constant changes it faces. And, with the volumes of data that organizations process today, they must be able to access data in place to enable analysis and exploration without requiring the data be moved or copied.
Given this increasing reliance on data, I’ve identified five key requirements for modern data warehouses to assist organizations in the effective planning and selection of related technologies. The five key requirements are responsiveness, agility, access to data in place, cost-effective scale and flexible deployments. In this viewpoint, I will drill down on cost-effective scale and flexible deployments since these are often challenges for many organizations.
