About Space and Time Dimensions of Enterprise Data

Abstract

Time and space are discussed as main dimensions of the information and, consequently, of the different kinds of enterprise data. Some theoretical approaches on spatiotemporal reasoning are considered and, based on it, a few practical consequences are identified, especially for the enterprise data warehouse and data marts. The final part investigates the main characteristics of temporal object models.

Keywords

• enterprise data
• enterprise application
• space dimension
• time dimension
• spatiotemporal reasoning
• temporal object model.