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BASICS: Streamlining the Information Supply Chain > Overview
While the primary impetus to go with the VDDW approach is for the bottom-line financial impact it delivers, VDDW also streamlines the information supply chain in several ways. First, it reconfigures and repositions several components of the content factory (the DW), expanding the roles of certain tools, and combining other roles together. This ends up as more than just a re-drawing of boxes on an architecture diagram. It translates to fewer handoffs of large data sets, to the tune of 50% reductions in processing time for key functions like ABC cost allocation, and dramatic reductions in storage required, on the order of multiple SAN cabinets for a large enterprise. These are the efficiencies the VDDW is able to deliver as far as the content factory is concerned.
As far as the distribution channel (BI) is concerned, VDDW streamlines the Channel more by way of consequence than anything else. VDDW doesn’t really involve any direct changes to the suite of BI tools the enterprise might employ. By providing a repository of content that is extremely well integrated, rich in value, and easy to use, much of the downstream integration and spreadsheet clutter that is required to identify areas and actions for performance improvement is dramatically reduced.
The VDDW approach, while being principally a new way to implement the DW, ends up streamlining the rest of the information supply chain as well.
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