Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing
This book will show you how to use the Oracle database with tools such as Oracle Discoverer to query the warehouse, generate reports that can be deployed over the web, and gain better insight into your business.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing
Chapter 8: Data Warehousing and the Web
8.1 Overview
You may be starting to read this chapter and wonder what the Web has to do with data warehousing. One of the problems is that the Internet or Web has become a term that people use, but it has several interpretations. To distinguish between an internal Web and the World Wide Web, the term Internet is used to describe the global connection of public computers. Often, sitting behind the Internet is a company's own Web, called the Intranet, which is only accessible to people within that organization. It's the Intranet that we are primarily interested in. Most of us, when we first think of the Web, probably imagine checking out a company's product or placing an order, so what does that have to do with our data warehouse? Well, you could be very surprised at how important the Web could be to your data warehouse.
8.1.1 Internet and Intranet
Today, most companies have some presence on the World Wide Web, but what many people may not realize is that within the company there can be a huge internal Web site used by employees only, where all business is conducted. Oracle itself is a good example of a company using their Intranet to communicate and conduct internal business. For example, when Oracle employees needs a new laptop or mobile phone, they access the internal iProcurement system and go shopping, just as if they were shopping on the Web. In some countries, payslips are only available on line,...
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