When to Use Data Mart
- Becky Weinberg (Unlicensed)
- Pamela Totas (Deactivated)
Eagle Information Delivery Buildouts Should Incorporate Data Mart
If you are an Eagle client in the process of building your information delivery solution, we recommend you use Data Mart. Data Mart is at the core of Eagle’s information delivery strategy. As Eagle develops and integrates additional tools for information delivery and portfolio analysis, Data Mart is the default data source for them. For example:
Third-party reporting tools and applications can source from Data Mart, because the Mart is an open database platform.
Data Mart offers a simplification of reporting configuration relative to prior tools.
The Data Mart achieves efficiencies as a “write once, read many” information resource.
Eagle Portal is closely integrated with Data Mart.
Eagle Mart, Eagle’s platform for delivering standard out-of-box reporting, performance and Portal content is based on Data Mart.
Data sources outside the Eagle warehouse can often be integrated with Data Mart tables to provide a more comprehensive view of the firm.
Eagle’s Advanced Reporting solution based on the Active Reports platform can use Data Mart as its source.
Use Data Mart if You Implemented Before Eagle Data Mart
If you built your information delivery around Eagle before Data Mart, you have the same reasons as implementing clients to use Data Mart. New information delivery initiatives would do well to source from Data Mart.
A more complex question is whether to convert existing reporting to Data Mart. This involves a unique cost/benefit calculation facing each company. Some key considerations are:
Conversion is easier/harder if existing reports have less/more program logic beyond just displaying values of field attributes.
All meta data (field attributes, date rules, source rules, range rules and dictionaries) is reusable in configuration of Data Mart.
Conversion to Data Mart can be done for a part of the report suite, such as a new type of information delivery.