Data Warehousing with UniVerse and WebKit

Currently there is much being said about both the Internet and Data Warehousing, as separate and distinct technologies. Now someone has thought to marry the two, with the idea of offering a Web Gateway to a Data Warehouse. This approach has several advantages. First, you no longer have a hardware/software compatibility issue, since most browsers are compatible with most Internet servers. You instantly provide access to everyone anywhere, without the need to extend a private network. Finally, the implementation is inexpensive, since most of the required pieces are typically in place or available at a reasonable cost.

Consider your corporate database stored somewhere on a UNIX system in UniVerse. We can consider this the simplest form of a data warehouse. Your corporate data is warehoused on your computer, and you desire to make it available via the Internet. The vehicle to permit you to do this as simply and quickly as possible is WebKit. WebKit provides the interface between a Web server and your UniVerse data warehouse. Browser requests are passed to your Web server and are processed by WebKit, which becomes the gateway to your data warehouse. These requests are translated into instructions UniVerse understands, the data is retrieved, and WebKit formats this for return to the browser. It's basically that simple, and now you are taking advantage of the absolute latest technology!