THE CHALLENGE: HOW TO ADDRESS SMALL DATA MARTS EFFECTIVELY
While data marts require significantly less infrastructure than data warehouses, they are still relatively expensive and time-consuming to implement and maintain. This is particularly true for integration with mainframe legacy data. Often, the high costs mean that you can’t justify the project at all.
Even when you can justify the costs, the required approval and implementation delays often mean you don’t get the system operating on a timely basis. These delays can be just as deadly to a data mart project.
What is needed is a method of implementing a data mart without the costs and delays typically encountered; in other words, a virtual data mart, or virtual data warehouse.
THE SOLUTION
Arbutus specializes in accessing non-relational legacy mainframe and AS/400 data. Arbutus Connect is middleware specifically tailored to move that data directly to Windows. The solution is simple, powerful, timely and cost-effective.
You can install and configure the software on your mainframe in a matter of days. As your needs change, you can add new tables in a matter of minutes, with no delays or additional costs.
In addition to accessing the data, Arbutus offers semantic and transformation layers that allow the implementation of virtually any data interface or business rule. You are not limited to merely exposing the data, but can dynamically fit it to your needs.
As an added benefit, you access live, or current data, not an earlier - and possibly outdated - copy. This means that you can implement a virtual data mart very quickly and adapt it to fit your evolving needs, all without the typical bureaucratic process.
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