Virtual data services are widely used by businesses for accessing, managing, integrating, and governing data. Having a data virtualization strategy in place is essential to delivering information to BI tools, applications and processes across the enterprise.

Specifically, it can help integrate data from a variety of sources and extend your data warehouse for a more complete customer view. In this paper, you will learn about data virtualization use cases for operational business processing and data management, including how to:

• Monitor and report on live, real-time operations for faster business response
• Use operational data stores to view information across departments
• Facilitate agile BI development with a virtual data mart
• And more.