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Retail Services Provider Deploys 2.2-Terabyte Data Warehouse to Better Serve Clients
Overview Acosta provides retail sales and category management services to more than 1,000 manufacturers, including giants such as Clorox, Heinz, and Nestle. With offices in more than 60 cities in the United States and Canada, Acosta provides its services throughout North America. To better manage its information, Acosta created a 2.2 -terabyte enterprise data warehouse based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) SP2, and hosted on an HP 9000 Superdome computer with 12 Intel Itanium 2 processors. SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services was used to create more than 50 client-specific multidimensional databases. Acosta sees its solution, called iQubed, as a key differentiator in its industry.
| Publisher | Microsoft Tips | File Format | WORD |
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| Date Published | June 2007 | ||
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