What Do Your People Need And When?

摘要

Database experts agree that to master enterprise data integration, a company must first get a handle on how much of its informa-tion is updated in real-time. The term "real-time," however, is thrown around a lot And lite so many terms in high-tech, it has adopted so many meanings as to be almost meaningless, Is real-time data where users can see data simultaneously with the transaction, as Webster's would suggest? Is a one-hour delay real-time? Two hours? Ten minutes? To a retail executive used to daily or even bi-weekly updates, a one-hour delay feels like real-time. And to a WaE Street trader, a 10-second delay feels like anything but real-time.