It's a well established fact that a large part of any analytical or statistical modeling process is the work surrounding the gathering, cleansing, and manipulation of the data required as input to the final model or analysis. It's often stated that as much as 60%-80% of the man-effort during a project goes toward these steps, with at least that same percentage of total processing cycles going toward the same effort.

This white paper defines enterprise analytic data sets and how using them conserves resources, including people and systems. To learn more about the advantages, costs, and benefits of this methodology, download the white paper.