Therefore addressing the issue of integration seriously is crucial for companies and vendors that want to thrive in this changing industry. Accordingly, database vendors need to embrace open standards and seamlessly integrate their products with complementary products. Other issues that database vendors need to address are scalability and ease of use as companies are looking for the ability to expand to large database sizes without having to hire a large staff of expensive Database Administrators. Finally, a recent IDC survey that examined respondents' ratings of the significance of specific database features showed that features critical to or enabling ebusiness, e.g. 24x7 availability, high transaction throughput, and fast online response time were considered very important or even crucial. The tools portion of the data warehousing market includes software for warehouse generation, warehouse management, and information access.
Analytic applications are equivalent to the application part of the data warehouse software market.
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