Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem 5 > Advanced Database Management System

Marks: 10M

Year: Dec 2015

• The information component delivery is used to enable the process of subsuming for data warehouse information & having it delivered to one or more destinations according to some user-specified scheduling algorithm.
• In other words information delivery system distributes warehouse-stored data & other information objects to other data warehouse & end-user products such as spread sheets & local data bases.
• Delivery of information may be based on time of day or on the competition of an external event.
• The rationale for the delivery systems component is based on fact that once the data warehouse is installed & operational, its users don’t have to be aware of its location & maintenance.
• All they need is the report or an analytical view of data at a specific point in time.
• With the proliferation of internet & World Wide Web such a delivery system may leverage the convenience of the internet by delivering ware house- enabled information to thousands of end-users via the aliquots wide network.
• The value of data warehousing is maximised when the right information gets into the hands of those individuals who need it, where they need & they need it most.
• The issues become even more difficult to resolve when users are physically remote from data warehouse location.
• The web removes a lot of these issues by giving users universal & relatively inexpensive access of data.
• Couple this access with the ability to deliver required information on demand & the result is a web-enabled information delivery system that allows users dispread across wn hnents to perform a sophisticated business-airical analysis & to engage in objective decision making…