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Impact of service-oriented architectures (SOA) on business process standardization - Proposing a research model
Originally, Data Warehouses (DWH) were conceived to be components for the data support of
controlling and management. From early on, this brought along the need to cope with extensive data
preparation, integration, and distribution requirements. In the growing infrastructures for managerial
support (“Business Intelligence”), the DWH turned into a central data hub for decision support. As
the business environment and the underlying technical infrastructures are fostering an ever increasing
degree of systems integration, the DWH has been recognized to be a pivotal component for all sorts of
data transformation and data integration operations. Nowadays, the DWH is supposed to process both
managerial and operational data – it becomes a transformation hub (TH). This article delineates the
relevant motives that drive the trend towards THs and the resulting requirements. The logical
composition of a TH is developed based on data transformation steps. Two case studies exemplify the
application of the resulting architecture
Business Intelligence in the Cloud?
Business Intelligence (BI) deals with integrated approaches to management support. In many cases, the integrated infrastructures that are subject to BI have become complex, costly, and inflexible. A possible remedy for these issues might arise on the horizon with “Cloud Computing” concepts that promise new options for a net based sourcing of hard- and software. Currently, there is still a dearth of concepts for defining, designing, and structuring a possible adaption of Cloud Computing to the domain of BI. This contribution combines results from the outsourcing and the BI literature and derives a framework for delineating “Cloud BI” approaches. This is the bases for the discussion of six possible scenarios – some of which within immediate reach today