Thursday, August 15, 2013

Agent Technology

Agent Technology
A software agent is a program that is capable of performing 3 predefined programmable tasks on behalf of the user. For example, on the Internet, software agents can be used to sort and filter out e-mail according to rides defined by the user. Within the data ware-house, software agents are beginning to be used to alert the users of predefined business conditions. They are also beginning to be used extensively in conjunction with data mining and predictive modeling techniques. Some vendors specialize in alert system tools. You should definitely consider software agent programs for your data warehouse.

As the size of data warehouses continues to grow, agent technology gets applied more and more. Let us say your marketing analyst needs to use your data warehouse with rigid regularity to identify threat and opportunity conditions that can offer business advantages to the enterprise. The analyst bias to run several queries and perform multilevel analysis to find these conditions. Such conditions are exception conditions. So the analyst has to step through very intense iterative analysis. Sonic threat and opportunity conditions may be it discovered only after long periods of iterative analysis. This takes up a lot of the analyst's ms run- lime, perhaps on a daily basis.

Whenever it threat Or opportunity condition is discovered through elaborate analysis, it also in-makes sense to describe the event to a software agent program: This program will then automatically signal to the analyst every time that condition is encountered in the future. This is the very essence of agent technology.




Software agents may even be used for routine monitoring of business performance_ Your CEO may want to be notified every time the corporate-wide sales drop below the monthly targets, three months in a row. A software agent program may he used to alert him or her every time this condition happens. Your marketing VP may want to know every time the monthly sales promotions in all the stores are successful. Again, a software agent program may be used of this purpose.

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