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Justin Short of Contemporary outlines how second generation business intelligence is set to revolutionise information delivery and accessibility.
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The solution to this problem is the use of a semantic or abstraction layer which sits between the user and the database and presents the key business metrics in a simple and consistent manner which can be understood by the entire information community within the business.
Duplication of effort
Another issue which results from a proliferation of ad hoc reports concerns duplication of effort; in other words, a number of users create several versions of the same report or query which, in turn, runs several times against the same database to return the same results.
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