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...
The software is designed to give users a single data warehouse where they can pull together information from diverse sources, like news services, legacy systems and Baan enterprise software. Users can also use pre-defined business templates to...
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...
For example the BI tools used in various parts of an organisation might use different definitions (sales versus profit), time periods (months or weeks) or even currencies, making it impossible to compare the data.
BT Retail's custom) of nine per cent but enjoyed a 145 per cent rise in external revenue. Verwaayen also claimed BT occupied the value-for-money part of the broadband market, as opposed to the lowest-price segment that hosts players such as...
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...