When Should a JD Edwards Customer Consider a Implementing a Data Warehouse?
There are two trains of thought when it comes to the need for data warehouses in the business intelligence equation. Some people suggest business intelligence can only be implemented successfully if it includes a data warehouse, while others oppose a data warehouse strategy entirely and suggest that it is the most likely success killer of a business intelligence implementation. The primary reasons why JD Edwards customers pursue a data warehouse strategy are: • To perform reporting, ad hoc queries, dashboards and other Business Intelligence against a data base totally separate from JDE production data base so business intelligence processing does not compete with transactional users. This is driven from the concern that business intelligence, by competing with resources on the transactional system, negatively impacts and noticeably slows down transactional processing . • To integrate and consolidate data from multiple instances of JD Edwards and/or combine information from JD Edwards a
