
In general, we have defined the following types of satellite splits:
- Splitting by source system
- Splitting by rate of change
Additionally, we have defined two more types of splits as mentioned below:
- Splitting by level of security and by the level of privacy
- Business-driven split
A satellite split by source system is strongly recommended to prevent two issues when loading the data into the enterprise data warehouse: First, if two different source systems with different relational structures should be loaded into the same satellite entity, a transformation of the structure might be required. However, structural transformation requires business logic sooner or later and that should be deferred to the information delivery stage to support fully-auditable environments as well as the application of multiple business perspectives. Read More