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...
Best known of these is the DataStage ETL (Extract Transform Load) product used to build and maintain data-warehouse contents from a wide variety of transactional data sources. The market seems to like the idea of Red Hat acquiring Corel - even if...
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...
Sunopsis, recently acquired by Oracle, uses the E-LT (extract - load and transform) approach, which does not require an ETL server. This process is commonly referred to as extraction, transformation and load (ETL), and can take anywhere from a few...
The data warehouse infrastructure is built around a number of datamarts, which filter information from the data repository, dividing it into subsets of information to support particular groups of users and help with load-balancing.