Sunday, 12 July 2015

Categories of Enterprise Data

1.    Master data -   Business entities of the organization.Data revolves around these business entities. Customer,Employee etc. This is maintained as part of the MDM solution.

2.       Transactional Data – Generated as part of day to day business processes. Also known as the OLTP system Online transactional processing systems)

3.       Analytical Data – Typically related to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).Data Warehousing systems are used to store and retrieve analytical data.

4.       Meta Data-  Data about data.Describes IT systems, Business rules etc.

5.       Reference Data- Static data elements, sometime transient like currency ,industry standards. A reference data hub is maintained for transaction processing.


6.       Un-Structured data- All the above mentioned data would be classified as structured data.Examples of unstructured data would be Emails,Social Media data i.e. Big Data. Hadoop is a platform used to manage un-structured data.

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