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...
CWMI defines a universal data format for warehouse and business intelligence products. The Microsoft standard is not a scalable or flexible platform for warehousing," he claimed. Hyperion and Unisys have teamed up with the big three to submit their...
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...
Data warehousing involves centrally storing critical business information in a form that enables users (other than just programmers) to view a 'snapshot' of the data at any time as well as to examine and access the data in the form required.
The competency centre defines the BI vision for the organisation, setting standards, building the technology blueprint, managing programmes, developing user skills and controlling funding. The BI competency centre is also distinct from the data...