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StorHouse - The eBusiness Warehouse (eBW) Concepts and Applications for eBusiness Infrastructure

Executive Summary
Too much has been written about eBusiness. Volumes have been written regarding the application layers, web site ingenuity, and the wonders of the World Wide Web. What is missing is the infrastructure requirements needed to support these multiple applications and web site ingenuity. eBusiness can cause considerable strain on an enterprise's IT department. For example, the more an enterprise engages in eBusiness initiatives, the more information storage and retrieval requirements skyrocket.

eBusiness infrastructure is the foundation for successful eBusiness initiatives. Cornerstone to the foundation is access and availability of all of the highly granular information that is generated by eBusiness initiatives. Without all of this information, there is no significant advantage in the marketplace.

To prove this point, this paper does five things:

1. Provides a common definition for eBusiness
2. Shows the dramatic increase in information storage for eBusiness enterprises
3. Identifies the types of highly granular information generated by eBusiness initiatives
4. Provides justification for storing and accessing all of the granular information over time
5. Suggests a means for reducing IT burden by using StorHouse as the eBusiness Warehouse (the cornerstone)

Introduction
No matter how the industry pundits slice it, the phenomenon is staggering:

• More than 142 million people using the Internet in 1998
• 502 million worldwide using the Internet by 2003
• 197,000 new users (a.k.a, customers) each day
• More than two new customers per second
• eBusiness revenue generation of $48 billion in 1998 to $1.3 trillion in 2003

The effects of eBusiness (electronic business) are hard to miss. At the macro-level, stocks have soared and the United States economy has been, and continues to be, bullish. At the micro-level, what it means to "do business" has been redefined. "Doing business" in today's economy means organizations need to embrace the Internet as part of their business strategy. More specifically, they must embrace the management philosophy and technical concepts necessary to support eBusiness infrastructure.

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