ABSTRACT
A critical component for the success of the modern enterprise is its ability to take advantage of all available information. In the past few years there has been an explosion of information, internal as well as external, available to an organization and the trend seems to continue or may even strengthen in days to come. Data environments are becoming more and more complex as the data is useful only if organizations have the systems and tools to harness it and turn it into information for evaluation and decision-making purposes. With the constant increase in the volume of data available and the amount of information they manage, organizations are finding this challenge of making data work in their favor more difficult.
