When you try to integrate your information with other applications and make it useful, we k now from experience that the learning curve is even steeper. Our major claim is that our software works and is in production . It is, therefore, extremely low risk relative to tackling an data warehousing project and then linking in all sorts of different applications to make it useful. What you will probably find is that you don't have an information warehouse, you are more likely to have a data warehouse. What many of our clients have found is that data is not by itself very useful.
Additional processing is needed to make it accessible and useful to potential users.
Alacrity Results Management can provide that additional value added and can source its information from an existing data warehouse. What we often find with customers is that the data warehouse is a useful place to get clean data from, but that what they are really interested in are the relationships between the data. Most accounting systems provide the ability to compare actuals to budgets. What they don't do is provide a process for developing a hiqh quality budget quickly. They also generally are not very good modeling tools.