Glossary
Data Warehouse (DWH)
Central repository for structured data. Despite decades of DWH investment, most data remains dark.
Definition
A Data Warehouse (DWH) is a central repository for structured data-typically used for reporting, analytics, and business intelligence. Organizations have invested decades in DWH infrastructure. Yet despite this investment, most data in the warehouse remains dark-collected, stored, but never analyzed for decisions. Sentient OS activates DWH data without requiring migration. The platform integrates via SQL, APIs, Kafka, S3-consuming data where it lives. The decision layer transforms warehouse data into real-time intelligence. The problem was never storage; it was activation. Sentient activates what the DWH holds.
Why It Matters
DWHs hold dark data. Sentient activates it. No migration-integrate and transform.
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Related Terms
Dark Data
Corporate data never analyzed for decisions, rotting in silos. Sentient OS activates this invisible asset.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Traditional analytics tools. Sentient argues BI is fundamentally retrospective-'autopsy reports.'
Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Platform unifying customer data. Sentient goes beyond CDPs by adding a decision layer, not just data aggregation.
Signal Capture
Total holistic information capture at the protocol level. Multimodal: text, video, audio, visual semantics.
KPI Aggregation
Modular linking of semantic metrics into business-specific KPIs with contextual weighting. Layer 3 of the architecture.
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