Re: XML in datawarehouses?

From: Terry Feather <terence.feather_at_arcplan.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:42:09 -0400
Message-ID: <7ukddj$qpe$1_at_autumn.news.rcn.net>


[Quoted] Another spin on XML data is getting info. from the WWW and integrating it into your DW information. dynaSight from arcplan integrates the WWW as a data source. arcplan's new XML interface/connector to the WWW allows customers to tap into the Internet and track changes on Web sites or pull XML objects into an analytical application users can query and slice and dice.....

Check out the news release at www.arcplan.com

Terry Feather
arcplan, Inc.
610-902-0688 x14
Terence.Feather_at_arcplan.com

Vikas Agnihotri wrote in message <7uig60$p60$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Has anyone used XML at any stage in implementing a datawarehouse?
>Middleware, during the ETL phase, whatever...
>
>XML's built-in self-descriptive nature seems like it would lend itself
>well to gathering data from disparate sources and making sense of it
>before it is loaded into the warehouse. Simplistically, all you would
>need is a XML-aware middleware layer between your source systems and
>your DW.
>
>Any thoughts, comments appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Vikas
>
>
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Received on Wed Oct 20 1999 - 14:42:09 CEST

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