Current Solutions
•Mostly ad-hoc programming: create a special solution for every case; pay consultants a lot of money.
•Data warehousing: load all the data periodically into a warehouse.
–6-18 months lead time
–Separates operational DBMS from decision support DBMS. (not only a solution to data integration).
–Performance is good; data may not be fresh.
–Need to clean, scrub you data.