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...
In March, some Oracle customers complained that company representatives told them they were not paying enough for their use of the Oracle's data warehouse software, which creates reports from reams of information culled from various sources.
Rather than having to install a huge, centralised database called a data warehouse to store that disparate information, companies can use DB2 Information Integrator to query several sources and present a consolidated result.
Simon Post Carphone Warehouse However, the cost of the Basic or Advantage Edition remains unchanged, at $10,000. The price of the Premium or Enterprise Edition of the WebLogic Server has gone up from $17,000 to $25,000: a rise of $8,000.