EPM packaged warehouses
include Human Capital Management, Financials, Campus Solutions, Supply Chain,
and Customer Relationship Management. These applications also support OBI EE as
a frontend tool.
The promise of such prebuilt solutions is that they provide easier-to-deploy solutions
with more out-of-the-box functionality. While some customization will probably
always be needed, the time required to deploy an initial and useful solution can be
substantially reduced.
The Metadata Challenge
On the one hand, metadata??”or descriptive data about data??”is incredibly important.
Virtually all types of interactions with a database require the use of metadata,
from datatypes of the data to business meaning and history of data fields.
On the other hand, metadata is useful only if the tools and clients who wish to use it
can leverage it. One of the great challenges is to create a set of common metadata
definitions that allows tools and databases from different vendors to interact.
There have been a number of attempts to reach an agreement on common metadata
definitions.
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