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- Data Warehouse
- A database designed to support decision making in an organization. Data from the production databases are copied to the data warehouse so that queries can be performed without disturbing...
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- Aster targets mid-market with budget-conscious, massively parallel data warehousing appliance
- Aster is seeking to level the playing field on the data warehousing entry front, and that message should resonate well with companies that need an entry-level solution that doesn’t compromise on power. Aster â€" and it won’t be alone -- clearly sees a sweet spot with companies that are value-conscious...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Aster, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Massachusetts Educational Data Warehouse provides a host of tools
- Massachusetts is not the first state to create a data warehouse for educational data, but it is early to the field with a really robust set of tools for analyzing a variety of student information. For those of you new to data analysis (probably not many of you, but...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Data, Tool, Massachusetts Educational Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Greenplum speeds creation of 'self-service' data warehouses with Enterprise Data Cloud release
- There will be a building symbiotic relationship between cloud computing and such data warehousing solutions as Greenplum's Enterprise Data Cloud. The more data that can become housed in accessible clouds, the more need to access, manage and provision additional data for analysis pay-offs. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousingTeradata v ExadataRegarding Exadata disk scanning capability, I'd like to offer a reference to a Winter Corporation assessment of Exadata. In the report there is clear coverage of the topic of table scanning:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/announcing-a-wintercorp-paper-about-oracle-exadata-storage-server/I'd also like to point out one small nit about...
- Tags: Business intelligence, Storage, Databases, Exadata, Teradata, data warehouse
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
- Data warehouse player Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and HP so much so that you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about. Teradata is a company that has come up frequently through my various case studies in a past life....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Infobright Community Edition (ICE) 3.1.1 (Windows)
- Infobright technology combines a column-oriented database with our Knowledge Grid architecture to deliver the ideal solution for your growing analytic needs. While other data warehouse products require extensive IT effort to create indexes, partition data and build physical data structures, our self-managing solution delivers rapid response to complex queries created...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, MySQL, Microsoft Windows, Infobright, Infobright Community Edition, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-05-01
- Data Analysis Solution Provider Increases Query Performance by Nearly 50 Percent
- Nexius, a technology consulting firm and provider of data analysis solutions, was chosen by a major telecommunications company to deploy its advanced network intelligence platform called Xplore to analyze quality-of-service data provided by a mobile phone network. Xplore had to process more than 10 million call records per hour, and...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Data Warehouse, Performance, Microsoft Corp., Netezza, Business Intelligence, Databases, Storage, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Visual Display of Large Data Volumes
- Many organizations have huge amounts of data, containing hundreds of millions of records. There are good solutions available for the purpose of collecting, organizing and consolidating data, but people still struggle with presenting the data in a useful way. When trying to make use of the data, details are often...
- Tags: Acquisition, Data Warehouse, Panopticon, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Intelligence, Corporate Law, Storage, Databases, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2009-03-22
- The Interactive Data Warehouse: Introducing Transactional Data Marts and "Smart Applications" to Interact With Data Warehouse Data
- Traditional data warehouse literature describes four maturity levels for a data warehouse, the highest being the "Integrated data warehouse", where triggers in the operational systems keep the data warehouse immediately updated, and new transactions from the data warehouse are immediately written back to operational systems. But the number of different...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Data Warehouse Literature, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-27
- SAS as SaaS - The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Enterprise Scale SAS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Shared Service
- Many organizations recognize the benefits that can be achieved through the Software as a Service SaaS model. Why not apply this model to one's SAS data warehousing and business intelligence strategy? Organizations can save money and improve service levels through efficiencies gained by a shared infrastructure and support staff. These...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Software-as-a-service, Benefit, SAS Institute, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Using SAS to Build the Managed Care Data Warehouse at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
- Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Community Care needed to increase the sophistication of its ability to manage, analyze and report data in order to support organizational improvement and to accommodate its rapid growth. Improving efficiencies in summarizing and displaying decision support data to company management was also vital. To accomplish...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Health Care, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Proven Strategies for Optimizing Data Warehouse Deployments With EMC and Oracle
- Most organizations face a similar challenge with their data warehouse deployments - achieving the best possible performance and efficiency at an affordable price. Working with the top industry vendor is key. EMC was the first storage partner to join the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative. EMC and Oracle's deep engineering collaboration...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Business Intelligence, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-02-12
- TEAM International Provides Effective Outsourced Testing Services to a Major Client
- The Client's leading software product is the benchmark recruitment software that is used by more than 90% of the world's leading recruitment agencies. The Client challenged Team International to assist in improving product quality, reduce time to market and have a positive impact on customer relations for the core database...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Outsource, TEAM International, Client, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-02-05
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Speeds Medical Research With Advanced Data Warehouse
- In the quest for more effective cancer treatments, researchers face a fundamental challenge: how to make sense of mountains of scientific and clinical data and find clues buried in them. The Human Genome Project, an unprecedented program that resulted in a map of the human genome and opened up limitless...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Medical Research, Biotechnology
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The applications portfolio part of the tour. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Sales Office, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- Esprinet S.p.A. Accelerates Data Processing and Improves Data Management Performance
- Esprinet S.p.A. (MTAX, PRT) wanted to overhaul the IT architecture by migrating all hardware and software and guarantee secure data access at all times to support an internet-based business model. The challenge was to accelerate data loading, processing, and searches and implement a single data access system for Italy and...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Spain, Oracle Corp., Data-processing, Data Access, Italy, Esprinet S.p.A., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- MapReduce-scale analytics change BI game as enterprises need to mine ever-expanding data sets
- BI has become a killer application over the past few years, and we're now extending that beyond enterprise-class computing into cloud-class computing. The amount of data and content -- and the need for innovative analytics from across the Internet -- is still growing rapidly, even though we have harsh economic...
- Tags: Game, Web, Data Warehouse, Analytics, Data, Customer, Computing, Data Set, Greenplum, Business Intelligence, Financial Planning, Pricing, Databases, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Overview video: new capabilities of DWE
- Don't just dump your data - get the most value from it, and see how IBM is redefining what a warehouse can deliver. IBM DB2 Warehouse is a dynamic, integrated data warehousing solution that delivers all the functions required to deploy, maintain, and evolve an intelligent data warehouse. It...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Video, IBM Corp., IBM DB2 Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Corporate Communications, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Marketing
- Presentations 2008-12-16
- Quelle GmbH Optimizes Scalability and Availability With High-Capacity Data Warehouse Solution
- Quelle GmbH wanted to extract detailed and compressed information for optimal customer orientation and construct an extensive data warehouse that offers high performance and availability. The challenge was to replace the company's Symmetric MultiProcessing SMP architecture with a cluster architecture to increase performance and reduce costs. Quelle GmbH implemented Oracle...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Quelle GmbH, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Information technology prospects in a volatile economy
- SOA a 'game changer' in today's economy by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Information Technology, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Games, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Joe McKendrick, Data Warehouse, SOA, Jim Kobielus, Databases, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-10-22

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