8. At teradatastudentnetwork.com, watch the Web seminars titled “Real-Time Data Warehousing: The Next Generation of Decision Support Data Management”

and “Building the Real-Time Enterprise.” Read the article “Teradata’s Real-Time Enterprise Reference Architecture: A Blueprint for the Future of IT,” also available at this site. Describe how real-time concepts and technologies work and how they can be used to extend existing data warehousing and BI architectures to support day-to-day decision making. Write a report indicating how real-time data warehousing is specifically providing competitive advantage for organizations.

Describe in detail the difficulties in such implementations and operations and describe how they are being addressed in practice.