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________,or "The Extended ASP Model," is a creative way of deploying information system applications where the provider licenses its applications to customers for use as a service on demand (usually over the Internet).

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The "islands of data" problem in the 1980s describes the phenomenon of unconnected data being stored in numerous locations within an organization.

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Real-time data warehousing can be used to support the highest level of decision making sophistication and power.The major feature that enables this in relation to handling the data is

The BPM development cycle is essentially a one-shot process where the requirement is to get it right the first time.

Oper marts are created when operational data needs to be analyzed

Mehra (2005)indicated that few organizations really understand metadata,and fewer understand how to design and implement a metadata strategy.How would you describe metadata?

Data warehouse administrators (DWAs)do not need strong business insight since they only handle the technical aspect of the infrastructure.

The data warehousing maturity model consists of six stages: prenatal,infant,child,teenager,adult,and sage.

What is the definition of a data mart?

The ________ data warehouse architecture involves integrating disparate systems and analytical resources from multiple sources to meet changing needs or business conditions.

Which data warehouse architecture uses metadata from existing data warehouses to create a hybrid logical data warehouse comprised of data from the other warehouses?

Properly integrating data from various databases and other disparate sources is a trivial process.

Which kind of data warehouse is created separately from the enterprise data warehouse by a department and not reliant on it for updates?

Without middleware,different BI programs cannot easily connect to the data warehouse.

________ (also called in-database analytics)refers to the integration of the algorithmic extent of data analytics into data warehouse.

Because the recession has raised interest in low-cost open source software,it is now set to replace traditional enterprise software.

________ is a mechanism that integrates application functionality and shares functionality (rather than data)across systems,thereby enabling flexibility and reuse.

User-initiated navigation of data through disaggregation is referred to as "drill up."

What is Six Sigma?

Which of the following BEST enables a data warehouse to handle complex queries and scale up to handle many more requests?