Companies that need to integrate data warehouses and data marts can pursue one of four options: 1) do nothing, 2) centralize, 3) federate or 4) virtualize.
Companies can curb the cost of printing with new technologies and software.
The distributed nature of Web page content makes clickstream ETL more of an around-the-world safari rather than a short trip to the data stored inside the back-office data center.
What goes around comes around. Fast-forward to 2001, and we see a phenomenon being pushed called Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs). Coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, the rationale for the EIP looks and sounds a lot like that for the EIS.