NRP

NARRTECH recognizes information as a valuable resource and the ERP concept has been adopted to provide an environment optimized for analytical decision-making. The ERP approach allows separate operational transaction systems to operate at the optimum efficiency for their business tasks. The detail data is extracted from the operational systems, manipulated, summarized and loaded into the ERP. The result is high-quality modules called NMODULES.

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) structure is highly shareable, enterprise level, stable in design, but growing over time. The enterprise resource planning can be accessed for both immediate informational needs and for analytical processing and can be used for drill-down support for NMODULES.

NMODULES are designed to meet specific decision support needs and tend to be modified or tuned to meet specialized reporting needs. The NMODULES are subsets of the enterprise’s data specific to a functional area or department, geographical region, or time period.

NARRTECH Resource Planning (NRP) is an architectural structure that supports the management of data that is subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile, and contains both summary and detailed data.

“Subject-oriented” implies the data is organized along the lines of the major entities of the organization, such as customers, products, vendors, or accounts. “Integrated” refers to the physical unification and cohesiveness of the data, as it is stored in the warehouse. This covers many aspects including common key structures, encoding and decoding structures, common definitions, layouts, relationships, and naming conventions.

“Time-variant” means that any record in NRP is accurate relative to some moment in time. The time variant aspect of NRP shows up as an element of time in the key structure. An element of time may be a day, month, quarter, or year. “Non-volatile” refers to the fact that update (changes to a single record) does not normally occur in NRP. When changes do need to occur in NRP, they are captured in the form of a time-variant snapshot. NRP records are inserted and sometimes refreshed or replaced, but not deleted.

“Both summary and detailed data are contained” in NRP. The detailed data is made up of the atomic-level transactions from the daily operational systems. The summary data includes aggregate or transaction-level summary records and calculated summary data that are publicly distributed such as in quarterly reports.