Information Warehouse 1.0 - Part 3

Then the question of Data Integration comes to mind. If all I want to do is look at related data that happen to be in separate silos do we have to really go down the path of expensive data integration projects? Why do we try to hammer the square object in the triangle holes?

The World Wide Web search might show us the way. Relational databases are agreeably one of the best ways to store the data. But this is not 1980’s. Disk space and memory are less expensive than Consultants. We shouldn’t be shy to take the “Google” approach and improve upon that.

Introducing Endeca. Endeca is an Information Access platform. It doesn’t replace your ETL or BI tool. But lets you get more information out of your data and faster. When looking for Information, for those who always felt the BI front end as too restrictive and custom built SQL queries as too complex, here is the solution.

Imagine Google like free form text search capabilities for your queries. The ability to associate structured data with unstructured data and semi structured data without the need to bring them to your database. The ability to integrate your information without having to integrate the underlying data. Building an Information warehouse. This is Endeca.

So how does this work?