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

[Ziya Oz]

Andrew Boyd:

> anecdotally accurate stock/availability indication on their website

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. :-)

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Ziya

It depends.
If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.