Frequent Data Refresh Scenarios

Here are few examples of situations when you would want to run frequent data refreshes:

• During the last five days of the month or at the end of every quarter, general ledger data changes quickly with updated entries happening more than once a day. In this scenario, a financial analyst wants to add the most recent and accurate data during the day into the analysis and report generation process. The frequency of refresh needs to be every 4 hours, or 6 times a day.
• A retailer has strict guidelines for returns or refunds on any purchase orders. They need the most recent order data for computation and report generation at the beginning of a fiscal quarter. In this example, to account for time differences between Europe, East Coast, and West Coast of the U.S., a financial analyst needs to refresh data every 8 hours, or 3 times a day.