Everest has always been a trophy, but now that almost 4,000 people have reached its summit, some more than once, the feat means less than it did a half century ago. Today roughly 90 percent of the climbers on Everest are guided clients, many without basic climbing skills. Having paid $30,000 to $120,000 to be on the mountain, too many callowly expect to reach the summit. A significant number do, but under appalling conditions.
Figure B18.5 shows the three latencies that impact the speed of decision making. These are data, analysis, and decision latencies. Data latency is the time duration to make data ready for analysis, i.e., the time for extracting, transforming, and cleansing the data, and loading it into the database.
Latency is a term that refers to the time it takes for information to travel between your computer and your internet destination. It is affected by distance (the speed of light), network congestion, and the devices that it passes through along its journey.o internet service provider can guarantee a specific speed at all times-the actual speed that a customer will experience while using the internet depends upon a variety of conditions. These can include the customerâs computer, the customerâs home network configuration, or the performance of the website visited.