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Enterprise Dimension Management
Open Subscription Interface
Subscribing Systems Access Dimensional Data via +EDM's Open Subscription
Interface
The
success of a centralized dimension management strategy relies on the
simplicity of integration with every downstream system dependent on
dimensional data. Dimensional information in +EDM is readily available
to subscribing systems in three standard data formats: SQL, XML and
text.
By far the most utilized, SQL delivers a series of published views in a
variety of formats suited to business intelligence tools, data
warehouses, data marts, and operational systems. XML is rapidly becoming
the preferred standard for data interchange. Stratature is charting the
way with
+EDM's EDML format specifically designed for dimensional interchange.
Finally, text files, still the preferred format of many mainframe
systems, are fully supported in fixed, CSV and tab-delimited formats. |