The sensible approach to this would be the adoption of a Universal Data Architecture. By combining the principles of warehousing and data mart presentation, the organization can create a body of information which is continually growing and a forum for quick and useful analytical examination.
Where data warehousing is concerned, it important for an organization to be possessed in the knowledge of its core clientele. By maintaining a database, the hardware store can consider such options as a regular mailings to loyal customers, the distribution of coupons and other schemes aimed at targeting those with an already established interest in the retail location. The nature of a date warehousing strategy, which suggests a continually growing body of information which is in its own regard never fully compete, is suitable to a context where the expectation is for a continuity in this pattern of growth.
The data mart strategy can provide the organization with an appealing front end of the it operation. Through this channel, information may be entered by regular personnel as opposed to those with technical specialties. Moreover, there is an inherent reciprocity between the two approaches which suggests that, where resources exist, it is appropriate to implement both with simultaneity. Indeed, "the Data Warehouse is really a virtual collection of Data Marts collected together on a Data Warehouse Bus, and in that sense the data flows from multiple Marts into the Warehouse." (Nishrith, 1) This to say that the commission of an it reformation through the assistance of data warehousing and mart networking specialists should serve to avail the hardware company with the it tools to arm...
Once these have been established, the hiring process can seek out these qualities and consider individual candidate qualifications in direct light of these proposed standards.
A decision tree is designed to elucidate this comparative relationship. By establishing several independent variables which are desired, and seeking these out in candidates, we may more accurately arrive at the suitable candidates for reflection of the dependent variable, which is the status of being hired. Given the nature and needs of the business to which we have ascribed ourselves here, the qualities of courteousness, knowledge and flexibility will be sought out as independent variables. Candidates will be required to satisfy all three in order to reflect the dependent variable of qualification for hire. This array of conditions is demonstrated by the decision tree chart show here below.
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Works Cited
Friedman, Tom. (2005). The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. Farrar Straus and Giroux.
Ni*****h, P. (2006). Data Mart vs. Data Warehouse: The Great Debate. Open Source Analytics. Online at http://opensourceanalytics.com/2006/03/14/data-mart-vs.-data-warehouse-the-great-debate
