Tom Davenport has a great post “IT’s Wonderful Life”  in his interesting “The Next Big Thing”
blog. With the backdrop of the holiday season and the sentimental movie
“It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart, he muses in his post about
the positive things IT has contributed to companies. He cites Wal-Mart
(WMT), various airlines and the banking industry as all having
benefited from IT’s efforts.

I’d like to take his praise a step further by observing that all his examples are great references for the business benefit of enterprise data warehousing and enterprise data management.

All of these companies have positioned data as an enterprise asset
that, when integrated and transformed, enables them to manage far
better than if they were simply operating by “gut feel.”

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