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A thing of significance about which information is recorded; a component at the most useful, basic level.

Any element held in the repository is classified as a particular type. Examples of element type are entity, attribute, program module, process, table, diagram, text, softbox. Occurrences or instances of these are called elements.

Data formatted for end-user query processing; data created by end users; data provided by a data warehouse.

The user interface and layout of the multidimensional structures designed for the data access tools. This includes the customization of the tools for the users.

A group of departments, divisions, or companies which make up an entire business.

Data that is defined for use across a corporate environment.

A blueprint for all of the data used by all departments in the enterprise. An Enterprise Data Model has resolved all of the potential inconsistencies and parochial interpretations of the data used and presents a consistent and commonly understood and accepted view and definition of the enterprise data.

An Enterprise data warehouse is a Centralized Warehouse which services the entire enterprise.

A shared central repository for information, connected to disparate computer systems, that provides common management, protection and information sharing capabilities.

The set of all computer-based systems, documents, and procedures used in support of business enterprise operations.

An IBM mainframe channel architecture commonly used to attach storage devices.

A series of rules, guidelines, and principles used by an organization to direct the process of acquiring, building, modifying, delivering, and integrating Information Technology resources throughout the enterprise. These resources can include equipment, software, business processors, protocols, standards, methodologies, IT organizational structures and more.

A thing of significance, whether real or imagined, about which information eeds to be known or held. It is implemented in a database as one or more tables.

A diagram that pictorially represents entities, the relationships between them and the attributes used to describe them.

A type of data model. Part of the business model that consists of many Entity Relationship Diagrams.

A chart that shows the existence and structure of data attributes and data entities in the common data structure. It directly supports the entity relation diagram to provide a complete representation of the logical data structure.

Stands for Extraction, Tansformation, and Loading. The movement of data from one area to another.

An occurrence in a business’s environment to which that business must respond; see also BUSINESS SYSTEM and EVENT RESPONSE .

The frequency at which an event occurs or an object changes in the real world.

A reporting application targeted for use by executives. Usually such applications have extremely user-friendly, graphical interfaces with a small local data store derived from connection to a data warehouse. It is often used synonymously with decision support system.

The criteria documenting the data quality that currently exists in the data resource.

The ability to add new components, technology, and increments to the data warehouse solution. This is a critical capability for the data warehouse architecture and technical architecture.

A system or data file provided by an organization external to the client. This includes parent companies or subsidiaries, alliances, partners, and data brokers.

A schema representing the structure of data used by applications.

A set of data which resides normally on the operational systems which is uploaded into the data warehouse.

The date data was extracted.

The latency of data extracts, such as daily versus weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. The frequency that data extracts are needed in the data warehouse is determined by the shortest frequency requested through an order, or by the frequency required to maintain consistency of the other associated data types in the source data warehouse.

The standard expectations of a particular source data warehouse for data extracts from the operational database system-of-record. A system-of-record uses an extract specification to retrieve a snapshot of shared data, and formats the data in the way specified for updating the data in the source data warehouse. An extract specification also contains extract frequency rules for use by the Data Access environment.