Electrical retailer, Comet, has picked Sequent to provide it with a data warehouse to store and analyse information about its customers. The system uses a Sequent NUMA-Q enterprise server, kept on Comet's premises but maintained remotely from...
Wayne Eckerson, senior consultant, Patricia Seybold Group, said that data warehouse customers are now looking for industry-focused offerings, and that Sybase and SGI have established a "milestone towards providing true packaged analytic...
BT has chosen IBM and storage company, EMC, to set up a £5m 13TB data warehouse to store and manage customer information. It will use Numa-Q servers and EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems. Before finalising the contract, BT asked the...
Users of Siebel ebusiness applications can refine business strategies, operational execution and improve customer acquisition, retention and profitability since the software combines front office, back office and external data into a single...
For example the BI tools used in various parts of an organisation might use different definitions (sales versus profit), time periods (months or weeks) or even currencies, making it impossible to compare the data.
Thompson told silicon.com that by allowing the force to analyse performance data, the data warehouse will allow it to more effectively allocate police resources to combat crime by predicting areas of demand.