Competitive Challenges for Vanguard
P.J. Jakovljevic - July 21, 2005

Direct Access and Data Warehousing

Mid 2004, Vanguard introduced Direct Access, the technological enterprise information integration (EII)-like foundation of its Graphical Performance Series (GPS) solution, which delivers integrated enterprise information directly to business decision makers without relying on a data warehouse (DW), thereby potentially saving time, increasing business agility, and reducing costs. The Vanguard GPS solution has since been able to directly access the information stored in enterprise systems, without requiring businesses to move or stage data, or invest in complex and unwieldy data warehousing technology...