33:799:490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Application Programming Interface, Dow Chemical Company, Businessobjects
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter 5 catalyst for success, the loft efect. While loft is not a pre-requisite for wild success, it is a common characterisic among the more successful companies. The role of luck: luck is what happens when preparaion meets opportunity - elmer g. leterman, dow chemical company. One of the world"s largest chemical companies with b in annual sales and operaions in 160 countries. Uilizing current technologies bi competency center, ibm datastage, oracle, Sap bw, sap bw accelerator, 13tb data warehouse with 70% updated daily from 5 source systems, sap bex, webapplicaiondesigner and business objects, 3,000 concurrent users and 10,000 named users, + addiional 10,000 customers: results. Acquisiions union carbide 2001, rohm and haas 2009. Dow diamond system erp, dow workstaion desktop & os standards, global. Reporing project build out of data warehouse. Regional & departmental iniiaives can provide inspiraion & business requirements. Global focus was a major organizaional and cultural shif.
