Agents Build Data Warehouses

June 1996 / International Bits / Agents Invade the Desktop / Agents Build Data Warehouses

"Data warehousing is a process that is never complete," says Planning Sciences' Ian MacDonald. "So why not let agents do the Sisyphus work?" Planning Sciences' approach to data warehouses is based on three major components:
-- a scalable multidimensional database engine
 that

    stores several terabytes and is open to a standard OLAP API

-- intelligent agents that build
 the warehouse and

    keep it up to date

-- fuzzy drill-down functions to retrieve information
 

    in unstructured sources.
The company's Gentium 4.0, scheduled to be released next ye ar, will include all these components together with support for massively parallel computers.

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