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...
Today many organisations have a data warehouse that stores a version of their transactional information and makes it available for queries and analysis. Data warehouses are updated with periodic snapshots of operational data which are 'cleaned...
The BI competency centre is also distinct from the data warehouse team, Hostmann said. The data warehouse team is not the same as the BI competency centre. While the data warehouse team focuses on building the data management infrastructure, the BI...
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...