BI Information Interoperability: From the Database to the Data Stream

by Paola Di Maio

The capabilities delivered by BI technologies, which provide computational power, speed, and capacity, do not always address and resolve the issues derived from the lack of interoperability of disparate data sets. While information at the core is always some form of data, enterprises understand the importance of capturing intelligence from unstructured information where it is known as "knowledge," which by definition comes from disparate, unsorted, and nonhomogeneous sources.