Description: This article addresses the importance of having database software that properly handles changes concerning time = Temporal Issues.

Description: There are many factors driving digitalization but a reliable and meaningful data architecture is the basic prerequisite to a successful digitalization strategy.

Description: The authors envision a data warehouse with information at the policy level or lower, and demonstrate how this data can be used to analyze the sources of earnings. The key to their analysis is the data warehouse, which links each policy, not only to valuation assumptions and results, but also to general ledger accounting amounts and to projections - model output that feeds the financial plan.

Description: This paper focuses on the role and design of data bases in the office environment.

Description: Recent health care reform activity has highlighted the importance of Clinical Integration in improving the quality, safety, efficiency and reimbursement infrastructure of the health care system. This article discusses relevance and implication of regulatory measures, implementation and data issues, and provides an end-to-end example.

Description: This article contrasts the madness of the building of the Winchester House, a large California mansion, to business intelligence and data warehousing systems.

Description: You really can have it all: readily available and relevant information derived from consistent and understood data. Getting at the Truth requires a good datawarehouse design and an appropriate business data model. Add a powerful and flexible Web–based analytical interface to get at the data and success in the pursuit of Truth will happen.