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- Technical (developers, dbas)
- to predict growth, evaluate long-term resource needs; to quantify performancecurrent demands and identify pressure points on the system as a whole
- Communications/Marketing
- to track adoption and articulate quantify user interest in the various components
- Management
- to determine strategy based on current usage groups; to target specific groups for adoption
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- Real time event monitoring
- Data-mining of existing usage information in the database
Most likely, we will encounter some constraints when it comes to mining the database on account of the sheer quantity of data involved. Tables that contain event data are frequently truncated, so any long-term monitoring would require some aggregation and archiving of data. Also, depending on the complexity, it may be necessary to batch some of the queries and/or denormalize some of the assessment data.
What's already out there?
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