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- Two-Terabyte Data Warehouse Improves Business Insights and Customer Service
- It used to take Alticor IT personnel months to collect and consolidate sales and customer information from its 12 globally distributed DB2 databases. By the time anyone could use it, the data could be six months old and of historical interest only. To serve its businesses better, Alticor envisioned a...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., Two-Terabyte Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Denmark Telecom Leader Slashes Costs With 6 Terabyte Data Warehouse on SQL Server 2005
- From its headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, TDC provides land-line, mobile, and data communications services to customers in 12 countries. The company, which reported 2005 revenue of U.S.$8 billion, needed to gather data from more than 60 disparate systems into a central data warehouse to support some 2,000 business analysts and...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Denmark Telecom Leader, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, 64-Bit, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Processors, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Constructing a Data Warehouse
- In today's business world, data warehouses are increasingly being used to help companies make strategic business decisions. Some of the challenges associated with implementing a data warehouse are understood by answering these questions: What is the quality of data in the warehouse, what are the definitions of the data elements...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, It Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, It service Management
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- Schneider National Leverages Informatica to Replace Custom Code and Improve Developer Productivity
- Schneider National, Inc. is the leading provider of premium truckload and intermodal services. The company wanted to integrate data across eight different relational and non-relational systems that contained nearly 3 terabytes of data. In looking to create flexible and scalable data warehouse architecture to support hundreds of business users, Schneider...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Informatica, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Retail Services Provider Deploys 2.2-Terabyte Data Warehouse to Better Serve Clients
- 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...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Intel Itanium 2, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Acosta, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Processors, Databases, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Data Warehouses and Data Marts: A Dynamic View
- The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse, or the data warehouse is an outgrowth of the data marts, or there is parallel development, with the data marts guided by the data warehouse data model, and ultimately superseded by the data warehouse, which provides a final answer to...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2000-01-01
- The Decision-Driven Warehouse - Attention Warehouse Shoppers: The Output is in the Decision
- Today’s Decision Support System DSS market place has about as many definitions of warehouse as vendors: Centralized warehouse, operational data store, distributed warehouse, virtual warehouse, data mart, replicated online transaction processing OLTP data. If you are currently undertaking a Data Warehousing project, you are faced with trying to select...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, OLTP, Thomson Corp., Databases, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Management
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- Resources for designing, planning, and implementing a data warehouse strategy
- Contemplating data warehousingGood strategic management decisions require quality, pertinent information derived from the best data available; for many enterprises that means implementing a data warehouse.[b]Is your organization considering the benefits of a data warehouse? As an IT professional, what are your responsibilities regarding developing and maintaining data warehouse systems?[/b]
- Tags: Business intelligence, Storage, Databases, data warehouse
- Discussion threads 2004-12-13
- Three Terabyte Data Warehouse Set for Growth With SQL Server 2005
- CROSSMARK helps the Consumer Packaged Goods CPG industry refine marketing efforts by gathering vast amounts of Point-Of-Sale POS information into a data warehouse. As the company prepared to expand its biweekly POS data loads from 300 million rows to 4 billion, it needed a more robust Extract, Transform, and Load...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Point-of-sale, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, CROSSMARK, Business Intelligence, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- HP Creates 6.5 Terabyte Business Intelligence Data Warehouse for Worldwide Marketing
- To better support worldwide marketing, HP needed to expand its Business Intelligence BI data warehouse with a scalable solution that provided self-service reporting and the ability to perform ad hoc queries. HP moved to the highly reliable and scalable HP Integrity Superdome Server with 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Microsoft Corp., Integrity Superdome Server, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Databases, Tools & Techniques, Processors, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Building a Multi-Terabyte Data Warehouse Using Linux and RAC
- An emerging trend in the industry is the deployment of a "Grid" of industry standard commodity servers running the Linux operating system for applications that have traditionally been deployed on large SMP systems or proprietary MPP systems. To be successful a grid-based solution must be able to achieve the same...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Industry, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Linux, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Credit Card Company Runs Its Business With 12-Terabyte Mission Critical BI Solution
- PREMIER Bankcard, LLC PREMIER one of the largest VISA and MasterCard credit providers in the United States, needed to enhance scalability and performance for its Business Intelligence BI data warehouse and OnLine Transaction Processing OLTP databases. The company enhanced its BI infrastructure by upgrading its 12-terabyte data warehouse to Microsoft...
- Tags: Credit Card, OLTP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Enterprise Software, Processors, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Project REAL: Enterprise Class Hardware Tuning for Microsoft Analysis Services
- This paper describes best practices for hardware optimization for a multi-terabyte SQL Server 2005 data warehouse and cube. It describes hardware testing and tuning exercises conducted with large-scale Analysis Services MS OLAP cubes based on a multi-terabyte SQL Server data warehouse. Topics include lab setup; cube processing, MDX query load...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Processors, Databases, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- How Data Warehouse Appliances Drive Down TCO
- For decades, companies have scaled their business intelligence BI architectures by purchasing more and bigger servers, storage devices, and databases. But such general-purpose patchwork infrastructures are becoming painfully inadequate for the comprehensive analytical needs of today's terabyte-sized databases. This Netezza white paper explains why scaling traditional BI architectures to meet...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, TCO, Netezza, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Roi/Tco, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Hardware
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- The Data Warehouse: 2 Years Later... Lessons Learned
- A data warehouse is often the first client/server application that institutions attempt. Some of those lessons include: learning new technologies, understanding warehousing concepts, integrating data, designing the warehouse, marketing the idea, finding resources, establishing "officialness" of data, evaluating impact on Data Administration, defining data, making a production system, prioritizing...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Client-server, Warehouse, Warehousing, Data Access, Business Intelligence, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 1994-12-02
- Building a Data Warehouse in a Heterogeneous Tool Environment
- Fielding a monolithic data warehouse environment may not be possible in today's business environment. The City of Charlotte is no exception. This paper addresses some of the trials and successes of the Charlotte multi-DBMS data warehouse/data mart pilot and describes the move from pilot toward a full production environment. The...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Environment, Tool, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2004-12-01
- The largest commercial Linux data warehouse in the world runs Oracle Database
- I found an interesting article, World's largest commercial Linux data warehouse runs Oracle Database. It's interesting to note that the current record holder is a 100 Terabyte database. They say that's triple the previous record holder, which was also Oracle....This post originally appeared on an external website
- Tags: Oracle Corp., database, data warehouse, Oracle Database, Linux
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
- The Bureau of Labor Insurance Creates a Robust Labor Protection and Service Network
- Established 57 years ago, Taiwan's labor insurance service now covers a record-breaking 8.79 million people. To cope with increasingly complex business content and fast-growing data volumes, the BLI is changing the architecture of its IT systems. The business is moving from a closed mainframe environment to an open Unix platform....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Business, Grid Computing, Insurance, Financial Planning, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Data Warehouse Software Maintenance Strategy
- The purpose of this paper is to discuss software maintenance strategies for the data warehouse. Though composed of multiple technologies, the data warehouse will be referred to as a "system" maintained by skilled professionals. The role of the Data Warehouse Technical Architect will be discussed as the technical leader not...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The Real-Time Data Warehouse: The Next Stage in Data Warehouse Evolution
- The concept of data warehousing is older than most people realize.This white paper describes the the gradual progress in data warehouse models. It discusses on the future of data warehousing and the enterprise architecture.
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 1999-09-01
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