Typically open data has been processed prior to being 'opened' in order to clean it, anonymize it and make it useable outside of the platform that created it. I believe it is possible to provide data as open in a near real-time way when your infrastructure has been designed to do so. I would however hesitate to refer to open data as a system. It's a philosophy, a culture that is abstracted from whatever OLAP or BI infrastructure an organization uses. It's not technology, it's empowered by technology.<div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">�A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it � subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.� <a href="http://opendefinition.org">opendefinition.org</a></blockquote>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Sam Aguyo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saguyo@yahoo.com" target="_blank">saguyo@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There is a general misconception between Online Analytics and Processing - OLAP and Business Intelligence - BI systems. OLAP works more with operational data which is rarely clean and consistent. BI systems are learning systems and an attempt to design a BI as if it was OLAP is likely to botch. �My understanding of Open Data is that it is a BI system which would not give a near real time data. However, users are able to query, report, analyse, mine, visualise and act. �On the other hand, users in general would want to work with standard reports, therefore it is imperative for the technical team to create these data marts in advance. �The general concern from the supply side should be how to make a BI more adaptive and not how to impose structure on it. �With the current data sets users should be able to do much. A BI adapts to the business in a more untructured environment, �Sam<br>
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