[Sigia-l] Site to Store - Ship to store

[Andrew Boyd]

On 10/5/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The reason I'm saying this is non-trivial is because technically a data
> warehouse is often the source of enterprise-wide CRM, regression analysis,
> decisioning, etc., where you pull such data and run compute-intensive algos.
> When you overlay real-time *transactional* demands created by online users
> *in volume* you're talking real hardware, real DB arch, real data management
> and, thus, real money. Doing this at the level of Target, Amazon, Wal-Mart,
> etc is absolutely non-trivial. (Hint: I'm designing such a system second
> tier to that benchmark. :-)

Agreed. Absolutely non-trivial when scaled to the level of a Target
(if they survive the accessibility court case) or a Wal-Mart.

Cheers, Andrew
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