This may seem like a trivial point, but we??™ve seen numerous companies
build elegant infrastructure without consulting business users to determine business
needs or key performance indicators (KPIs) to be measured. Often, such deployed
projects end up supporting very few users, generate little activity, and little business
intelligence is gained.
Assuming that your infrastructure is well planned and there is a demand for the data,
your next challenge will be to figure out how to handle the demand. You will be
faced with the need to design your data warehouse and other infrastructure components
to deliver appropriate performance to your users??”performance that may
initially seem far beyond your capabilities, since the information needed can involve
comparisons of massive amounts of detailed data.
When you start your design, also remember that this infrastructure will never be considered
finished. When the business needs change, so too must components in the
infrastructure. Thus, the ability to track changes through metadata stored in a repository
often becomes critical as part of the design work.
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