Why are data platforms built? Simply because there is a lot of information in organizations and they want to be able to use it easily and quickly. Over the years, efforts have been made to respond to this need in many different ways. Reporting has been built directly from source systems, different reporting databases have been compiled, traditional data warehouses have been built according to the Inmon or Kimball methodology or others. Recently, data has also been modeled using the data vault architecture and data warehouses have been built accordingly. I have tried to summarize this world in the article picture, which shows the basic principle.
Read the full article by our CEO Tero-Matti Kinanen on the page of Tietojohtamisen verkosto ry (in Finnish).
