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Staples Sharpens Decision Making With Realtime Data Warehouse Based on IBM Technology

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business intelligence / data warehousing,
managers,
distributed,
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Overview Staples, Inc. is the number one office products retailer whose inventory contains more than 30,000 products. The company needed a resilient and responsive open standards-based infrastructure capable of integrating data from multiple distributed resources to facilitate improved data analysis by product managers. Staples built an integrated data warehouse that consolidates sales information from several diverse customer-facing channels, providing managers with faster, more reliable intelligence about business-critical buying trends and marketplace demands.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2004	Downloads	4
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing, Decision Support / DW Front End

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