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...
Legal and governmental systems are also prone to promote grief as they too are dominated by human fallibility rather than rigorous and testable frameworks. Peter Cochrane spells out the dangers of being slapdash.
Traditionally, businesses have used data warehouse and analysis software to aggregate and study historical data from across different departments, said Eric M. For instance, a traditional data warehouse system might tell a retailer how many units...
The influence of a major player such as Wal-Mart cannot be underestimated, and many suppliers could find themselves drawn into RFID frameworks in order to maintain their business relationships with powerful and influential trading partners - we...