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...
Hyperion and Unisys have teamed up with the big three to submit their jointly developed standard - the Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI) - to the Object Management Group for approval. And IBM and Hyperion are already part of the Metadata...
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...
It also calls for a national "vehicle intelligence data warehouse" to reduce reliance on locally produced and held information, which would also fit into the national intelligence sharing strategy put forward by the Bichard Inquiry into the Soham...