ABSTRACT
Delivering data warehouse access via web browsers has a variety of benefits
Inside a corporate intranet, web-enabled data warehouses can increase ease of use, decrease some aspects of training time, and potentially cut costs by reducing the number of proprietary clients. Upgrades can also be accelerated given a standard client, and data warehouses can more easily integrate with other applications across a common platform. Extended to corporate trading partners via a so-called extranet (a secure extension of an intranet outside a firewall), the information contained within a data warehouse may be of sufficient value to become a revenue source. While such internal and external benefits may be appealing, they do not come without complicating issues.
