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...
The scale of the project means the rollout will be staged, with the past three years' data going into the live system and data up to seven years old going into the data warehouse, with a rolling refresh to ensure operational staff have access to...
Osman Arioglu, general manager of the Turkish Ministry of Finance, said: "The most important [part of the project] to us" is the development of a data warehouse for all tax information. The government hopes the data warehouse will aid in exposing...
Financial organisations dependent on time-sensitive applications - such as credit card fraud detection - are demanding and willing to pay for very low latency access. With terabyte-scale databases readily available, the new generation of data...