Irrespective of the nature of the business, the two primary goals of a data manager are to make information (from diverse sources) accessible to key staff, and to make this information as understandable and reliable as possible.  This is not an ideal world, however, and there are two further concerns:  How do we 'fire-fight' the current demand for data from our existing systems, and how do we resource the people to implement a solution on a limited budget?

Stayley offers two concept-models that address the majority of these concerns.  Bridge (as it name suggests) is a method for combining multiple data sources into a single data warehouse, whilst Vegas is the presentation layer for this information.  Depending on client needs, Bridge can be built to an existing data warehouse and/or isolate and notify users on poor data within the feed.  Vegas takes this information and provides an index of reliability for the data being displayed.  Furthermore, Bridge and Vegas can be combined to alert key staff to hidden trends within the data.