White PapersThis high, ongoing, cost is a major factor behind the failure of many data warehouse projects. Organizations simply do not appreciate the level of investment necessary to reflect typical levels of business change.
The architecture of KALIDO DIW, however, was developed to address the challenge of sustainability – that is, reflecting business change while maintaining data warehouse integrity, at a sustainable cost. Unlike traditional, custom-built data warehouses, KALIDO DIW is a prebuilt data warehouse.
When constructing a KALIDO DIW data warehouse, the task is to configure it to meet the business requirements, not build a data warehouse from scratch. KALIDO includes automatic, business model-driven schema generation, data loading routines (using ETL systems for data sourcing and cleansing) and data mart generation for business intelligence reporting and analysis tool integration.
