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...
Users of Siebel ebusiness applications can refine business strategies, operational execution and improve customer acquisition, retention and profitability since the software combines front office, back office and external data into a single...
In July, California scrapped a $95m software contract with Oracle after a lengthy and highly politicised controversy over the deal's terms, and potential conflict of interest charges against senior aides to Governor Gray Davis (see http://www...
Internally the priorities include the Dell enterprise data warehouse, its global online shop and the migration from Sun Solaris running proprietary Unix to Red Hat Linux, which is set to complete this year.