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...
However, sources close to the situation warn that the deal may yet fall apart and add that Freeserve is still in talks with other potential buyers. Freeserve's failed deal with T-Online earlier this year shows the UK ISP is no stranger to an...
PwC also pushed for the adoption of a specific type of XML format called Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), designed to simplify the sharing of financial statements, accounting records and other financial information among different...
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.