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| Define Real-time information |
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| immediate up-to-date information |
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| Provides real-time information in response to query requests |
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| Maintains information about various types of objects, events, people, and places |
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| Person, place, thing, transaction, or event about which information is stored. |
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| characteristics or properties of an entity |
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| Allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other |
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| Define Forward Integration |
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| takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all DOWNSTREAM systems and processes |
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| Define Backward integration |
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| takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all upstream systems and processes. |
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| A logical collection of information - gathered from many different operational databases - that supports business analysis and decision-making tasks |
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| What is the primary purpose of a data warehouse? |
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| to aggregate information throughout an organization into a single repository for decision making purposes |
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| Extraction, transformation, loading. |
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| contains a subset of data warehouse information |
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| information cleansing or scrubbing |
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| weeds out and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect, or incomplete information |
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| The process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone |
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