Kenneth Omorodion generates a snapshot:
In most modern businesses, by default, operational systems are managed in a way that only shows the current view of things in their data like active tickets, open incidents, active complaints, and daily sales. While this is a great way to monitor day-to-day reporting, it however tends to hide an important narrative for the business. For instance, it does not show how things have changed over time. It also does not tell a story on how previous periods compared to the current, in terms of the actual state of the data.
So, without a snapshot view implementation, there is no way to accurately view when data changes, and this may lead to a loss of the previous view forever with no way to retrieve that snapshot.
Click through to see how.