Innovations in data warehousing – Answering Complex, Real-Time and Dynamic Queries
Published: 1st October 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Conventional approaches to data warehousing have significant problems with a number of types of query. For example, when attempting to answer complex analytical queries it typically takes either a very long time (certainly measured in hours and often in days)…
Avellino Discovery
Published: 25th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Avellino is a company that has historically concentrated upon data integration projects for a number of large and prestigious organisations. Discovery, which is a data profiling and analysis tool, is the company’s first product and it fills a hole in…
Sybase IQ Multiplex
Published: 25th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Sybase IQ Multiplex (IQ-M) is a relational database aimed at data warehousing environments and, particularly, at very large data warehouses. What distinguishes IQ-M from its principal competitors is that it is predicated upon a column-based approach rather than the row-based…
ArcStyler from Interactive Objects
Published: 18th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Interactive Objects calls ArcStyler an Architectural IDE. In practice it is a product that falls within the general category of development tools. Specifically, it acts as a complementary product to conventional IDEs (integrated development environments) and modelling tools (especially Rational…
Crystal Decisions’ Crystal Enterprise
Published: 12th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Crystal Enterprise combines Crystal Reports with Crystal Analysis Professional. Also available is Crystal Analysis Holos, which is an environment for developing and deploying OLAP business intelligence applications. In addition, Crystal Enterprise also includes specific functionality to support information delivery and…
Sand Technologies Nucleus Exploration Suite
Published: 12th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Sand Technology’s Nucleus Exploration Suite is designed to overcome the problem that conventional data warehousing and OLAP tools cannot handle complex queries and analytics without either incurring very poor performance or requiring an inordinate expenditure on parallel hardware. And this…
InterSystems Caché 5
Published: 12th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Cach? from InterSystems is a database management system aimed specifically at supporting transaction processing, especially where complex business logic is involved. In particular, Cach?’s unique multi-dimensional capability means that it is much more efficient than conventional relational approaches when it…
Persistence EdgeXtend
Published: 12th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Persistence EdgeXtend is based on patented Persistence technology called Distributed Dynamic Caching. To put it in simple terms this is technology that has a two-fold purpose. In the first instance it allows conventional Application Servers (WebSphere and WebLogic) to operate…
Cognos Corporate Performance Management Framework
Published: 11th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
The aim of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is to integrate a number of hitherto discrete applications into a single environment that includes all the necessary elements of performance management. These include: strategic and tactical planning; financial considerations such as budgeting…
Informatica PowerCenter 6 and PowerCenterRT
Published: 11th September 2002 | By: Philip Howard
The Informatica PowerCenter 6 family is a suite of products that provides a data integration and data movement solution that scales from a single departmental data mart right up to a distributed multi-warehouse enterprise-wide system. Notice that we have not…