Browser Tools
Here we are using the term "browser" in a generic sense, not limiting it to Web browsers. Your users will be running queries against your data warehouse. They will be generating reports from your data warehouse. They will be performing these functions directly and not with the assistance of someone like you in IT this is expected to be one of the major advantages of the data warehouse approach.
If the users have to go to the data warehouse directly, they need to know what information is available there. The users need good browser tools to browse through the informational metadata and search to locate the specific pieces of information they want to receive. Similarly, when you are part of the team to develop our company's data warehouse you need to identify the data sources, the data structures, and the business rules. You also need good browser tools to browse through the information about the data sources.
Here are some recent trends in enhancements to browser tools:
Here we are using the term "browser" in a generic sense, not limiting it to Web browsers. Your users will be running queries against your data warehouse. They will be generating reports from your data warehouse. They will be performing these functions directly and not with the assistance of someone like you in IT this is expected to be one of the major advantages of the data warehouse approach.
If the users have to go to the data warehouse directly, they need to know what information is available there. The users need good browser tools to browse through the informational metadata and search to locate the specific pieces of information they want to receive. Similarly, when you are part of the team to develop our company's data warehouse you need to identify the data sources, the data structures, and the business rules. You also need good browser tools to browse through the information about the data sources.
Here are some recent trends in enhancements to browser tools:
- Tools arc extensible to allow definition of any type of data or informational object
- Inclusion of open APIs (application program interlaces)
- Provision of several types of browsing functions including navigation through hierarchical groupings
- All4nving users to browse the catalog (data dictionary or metadata, find an informational object of interest. and proceed further to launch the appropriate query tool with the relevant parameters
- Applying Web browsing and search techniques to browse through the information catalogs
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