Appendix and Use Cases

This appendix will discuss our experiences with a few use cases that cover the assertions made in this book. Each use case will drive home the need for raw data to be transformed into information, and for that information to be curated into knowledge and retained in a highly dimensional storage engine, or a knowledge base (KB); so that insights and, ultimately, business wisdom are outcomes. Once, in conversation with a CEO, I asked how much an insight generating engine would be worth to a retail business. The answer was immeasurable!